Indonesia

For 10 years, the population of komodo, in their own place, Komodo Island, is decreasing quite significant. The decreasing number is about 10 times for last 10 years. So, let’s say, if there were 100 komodos on 1999, there are only 10 komodos today. Many factors cause this, such as: Deers population is [...]

After Jakarta bomb which targeted Marriott and Ritz Carlton, many hotels that target domestic tourist are still survive. The main reason is the domestic tourists never worry about the security. Well, you can say, in other word, they don’t care. ;-) This condition can be proven by Aryaduta hotel network. The reservation to those hotels (in [...]

According the conservation of Komodo, there is one effort that being controversional. The moving of Komodo from Komodo Island to Bali issue became a hot issue, since many domestic staffs reject it. The moving plan, based on some news, will move many komodos from Flores Island (Komodo Island) to Taman Safari Indonesia in Gianyar Bali. Some people [...]

Bali is still attractive for foreign tourists. We can see from the number of foreign tourists who visited Bali during Jan-June 2009. From here, I got data the specific foreign tourist visited Bali. There was 1,017,661 arrivals of foreign tourists, where as the economic condition is not quite good since there was an economic crisis since [...]

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 [...]