Indonesia

Many events will be held during 5th Aceh Festival, Aug 1-11, on Banda Aceh. Culture parade, culture simposium, traditional games, and many more can be found and enjoyed. Aceh EXPO is also included since there is a goal to promote and try to sell Aceh tourism to foreigner. The opening ceremony will be executed by President [...]

Good news for Indonesia airlines! Since July 2009, there are some Indonesia airlines that can fly and visit to Europe again. I wrote the article once. Today, at least 4 airlines can start their operation to Europe. They are Mandala Airlines, Garuda Indonesia, Airfast, and Premiair. The ban had been released after the EU team did some [...]

As destination for many tourists, local and foreign, we can say terror became a deadly threat. But, don’t forget, there are many kind terrors. Bomb terror is one sample. But, the dangerous terror is the disease. Swaine flu became the hot topics recently since there are many victims, especially tourists, that were attacked in many destinations [...]

Australia Government released a travel warning for their citizen to visit Indonesia soon after the bomb terror in Jakarta couple days ago. Maybe the Australia gov concern about this since many Aussie became victim on Bali bombing on 7 years ago. However, other countries didn’t release the strict press release as Australian’s. New Zealand gov for [...]

After Jakarta bombing, many people were afraid Jakarta tourism will be collapse. But, they are wrong…TOTALLY WRONG! Monumen Nasional (Monas) which is located about 5 kilometres from the bombing location was still crowded by tourists, not only domestic tourists but also foreign tourists, such as from United States and Italy. Daniel, the US tourist, said he [...]

Minister of Tourism and Culture, Jero Wacik, released a statement after couple days of Jakarta bombing. He said, there were nothing to be worried for the tourists after the bombing, so they still can enjoy their holiday in many destinations in Indonesia. He also said, there is NO tourist exodus after the incident. The statement based [...]

Well, Bali was also became a victim of bombing on 2002. After that moment, Bali tourism were freezing for couple months and it was really affected the Balinese life since they were quite shocked for the terror. But now, after 10 days after the Jakarta bombing incident, it seems the tourism in Bali will not affected [...]

There are many ways to promote Indonesia. Held an exhibition is one of them. But, what will be exposed on that exhibition? Since Indonesia has many things to be shown, batik maybe the easiest part to be shown on exhibition. Well, there are many various batik in Indonesia so I’m sure batik has a great potential. We [...]

After Jakarta bombing on July 17 2009, many destinations especially in Jakarta rising the security level to prevent next bomb terror. Ancol is one destination that predicted can be the next target. So, no wonder many tourists were scanned their belongings by the security staffs before they enter the place. However, Ancol is still quite crowded [...]

This morning, another bomb explosion happened in Marriott Hotel (again). It also happened in Ritz, right in the front of Marriott. Many victims there, include Holcim President for Indonesia. Geez…