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well I think uh obviously the uh
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capacity was there so we could grow
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without building new infrastructure I
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think that's that's probably why it was
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able to pick up quickly and then since
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we have been able to be successfully
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addressing the uh security issue uh we
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we have seen a lot of uh growth in new
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uh hotels uh new Investments uh in
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hotels like the aore group which is the
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biggest group here uh they have 50
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hotels and they're planning to build
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another 50 hotels in the next 3 years
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Marriot and so on and uh the growth is
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coming from the five star as well as the
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three and four
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star Well we'd like to think it's a very
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important industry it contributes 4% to
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our GDP directly and uh if you say
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indirectly taking into account the
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multiplier effect the estimated uh
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contribution is 9% uh to GDP it
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contributes about 7% uh 7 to 8% of the
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labor force and that's really one out of
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12 jobs uh in Indonesia is being created
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from travel uh and tourism uh and it's
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the number five foreign exchange earner
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so number one is oil and gas uh number
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two is coal number three is palm oil
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number four is Rubber products number
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five is tourism so it contributes uh
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$8.5 billion uh dollar of foreign
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exchange of as of last year
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yeah we have a national tourism strategy
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and uh we're going to try to develop new
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destinations Beyond Bali you know
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Indonesian is Bal is well known
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internationally but there are many other
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uh beautiful places uh in Indonesia so
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we have uh Target till 2025 to develop
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like 1880 new destinations in the next 5
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years we want to develop 16 uh new
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destinations including lombok which is
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the island next to Bali it has beautiful
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beaches uh J Jakarta where the Bor
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famous boru temple uh we have volcanoes
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we have diving spots uh uh and we have
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Urban urban city like Jakarta which
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which can offer also a good place for
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tourism and what we want to be doing is
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actually uh also developing what's
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called special interest tourism uh and a
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number of the uh ones that we think
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Indonesia can be competitive in is like
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golf tourism uh we
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have2 golf courses uh in Indonesia just
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around Jakarta alone we have 38 uh in
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Bali also we have golf courses as well
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as batam and Diving surfing we have 600
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diving spots in Indonesia uh some of
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them many of them in in still in marine
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conservation area surfing we are known
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uh to uh to do to have the one of the uh
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most famous spots for surfing there's
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one uh most recently discovered by the
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surfing world you can surf on the
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river uh it's the meeting of uh
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Confluence of two rivers and then on
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Full Moon one becomes higher than the
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other and then you get waves and you can
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serve for one
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hour so you know we have all these kind
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of very exotic very uh interesting
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places our challenge is really to
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develop the infrastructure uh and the
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connectivity to get to these
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places the growth of the budget Airlines
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has actually helped a lot to increase uh
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domestic connectivity uh if you're if
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you're talking about going by by Airline
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and the cost has gone down uh so we need
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to do a better job of selling the
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packages and having the you know you can
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come in through Jakarta or you can come
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in through any of the major cities and
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then how do you get to that uh exotic
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destination you know we are uh
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prioritizing in the 16 destinations uh
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whether it's the need to build an
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airport or if there's an existing
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airport but the runway is not long
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enough or not thick enough then uh we
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are working with the Ministry of
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Transportation to make sure that those
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can be addressed and besides um going by
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plane and you can go by boat because we
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are an island nation so cruise ship is
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another area where we are which we are
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developing like the orur utan reserve
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you mentioned uh there are already
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Cruise uh ships uh going there uh from
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Australia from many countries because
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it's actually very accessible uh going
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there so we're also looking at how to uh
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ensure that the ports uh can uh uh
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accommodate uh increase Port calls from
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the from the cruise
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ships
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on infrastructure it's it's mainly
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government if you're talking about
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airports or ports uh it's mainly
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government uh central government com
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combined with uh provincial government
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they're increasing their Investments
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because we have prioritized
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infrastructure uh as a priority uh
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because we think uh to be able to
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unleash New Growth you have to address
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the infrastructure bottlenecks in a lot
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of places whatever they do for the ports
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and the airports is going to help trade
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as well and investment right so it's
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it's a com combination but at least as a
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tourism Minister minister or Ministry in
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our planning we prioritize this 16 for
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the next 5 years so we coordinate with
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the transportation Ministry say okay can
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you please you know in your budget
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allocation address this airport that
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port and like for the for the crise ship
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we have a 5year plan to uh develop 10
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ports with which can uh accommodate uh
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from the small to the larger cruise
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ships the the first one that will be
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developed will be Bali uh that will be
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able to accommodate the really really
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large cruise ship and then tanong puting
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which is where the orur utan reservist
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will also be uh developing that and
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samarang which is in Central Java so
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that you can access to borrow budur more
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easily well it's hard to say how much
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we're spending because the spending is
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being done by mainly by the
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transportation Ministry for the harbors
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and the ports and for the roads it's the
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Public Works uh Ministry uh but you know
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uh I would say uh it's at least their
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whole infrastructure budget is about uh
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200 trillion rupia which is like 20
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billion rupia a year we need to address
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that uh to be able to uh grow in
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continue growth in a sustainable way and
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to spread growth because a lot of uh the
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the development infrastructure is
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outside of java you know in in the more
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uh less developed areas uh of
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Indonesia Indonesia is a very large
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country very diverse country we have a
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lot of Rich
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biodiversity uh so uh when you talk
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about sustainable tourism it's a balance
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that you have to strike between kind of
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the mass tourism and the more
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specialized tourism so in some places
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you don't want Mass tourism you don't
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want for commodo for instance uh the
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island where uh you have the Komodo
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dragons we limit the number of people
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that go there because you want to
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protect the habitat and then a lot of
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the diving spots also you don't want uh
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too many people to go so we have to
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guard uh the uh environment and the
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biodiversity in that way and then there
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will be areas where you can you can
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accommodate Mass tourism but when but
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with mass tourism comes all the downside
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uh of large numbers of people you know
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how do you manage it in terms of the of
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the waste management in terms of the uh
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hotels that need to be built but not
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built in a way that's going to be uh
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destroying the environment etc etc so
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planning uh becomes a big
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issue well I think uh it's it's
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difficult to to to give a general answer
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because like European tourists and
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Australian tourists for instance they
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look for nature and they look for
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culture so for those uh types of
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tourists uh the the beautiful nature of
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Indonesia as well as the rich cultural
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heritage like in in a couple of uh of
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that those 16 destinations you have very
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strong uh nature ecotourism and culture
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uh
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components uh and for the Asian tourists
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they actually like shopping and eating
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and uh they're more interested in that
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kind of thing so they probably more
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attracted to the more urban areas and
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and we are we we also want to be
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developing shopping and culinary uh
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tourism as well as Spa and Wellness type
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of Tourism uh so I think it's we are
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developing a few uh areas and
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destinations and then within each
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destination you have strengths whether
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it's the nature or whether it's the
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culture or sometimes both uh and and we
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we will be packaging and developing uh
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these 16 destinations in that way and I
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think what will happen is that different
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groups of tourists will be attracted to
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different
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destinations actually depending from The
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Source country they come from and and
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income level and age group and so on so
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uh this year uh if you just take uh
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tourism numbers as as an indicator
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that's not the only indicator you need
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to also look at length of stay spending
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and so on but if you take numbers as a
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as as a uh as a Target uh this year we
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are hoping to get 8 million in two years
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we hope to get 10 million so I would say
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in five years uh hopefully we can get uh
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double of of eight which is like 15
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million I would say around 15 to2
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billion do foreign exchange receipts and
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and the other thing that we also focus
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on is of course domestic tourism because
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Indonesia is a large Market uh for the
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current uh uh situation actually we get
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in terms of spending uh and numbers
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domestic tourism is much larger than uh
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foreign tourism so so we we we we do we
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have to do both
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yeah we in Indonesia we're trying to
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promote the creative economy uh which is
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really how to get value added from our
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Rich cultural heritage uh as well as the
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more media based and it- based uh type
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of new uh Industries uh which are also
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growing in Indonesia uh and uh we are
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going to be promoting uh the film uh and
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the music uh industry in Indonesia and
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the whole entertainment uh uh industry
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that is related to that uh and we are
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hoping that uh our film our film
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industry can grow because of the L both
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film and music because of the large
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domestic market and hopefully we can
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also uh be seen as a location for Film
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Production uh just like other countries
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have done uh because it it will benefit
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the uh creative industry as well as
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tourism uh we we see that uh film uh
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production whether it's a a Hollywood
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film that is being filmed in your
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country like Eat Pray Love which uh
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actually uh was filmed in Bali in a very
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specific place called ubut which is the
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Arches create Village uh you you
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actually have Eat Pray Love tours uh in
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ubot uh so something like that impact uh
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we would like to see the impact on
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tourism or whether it's an Indonesian
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film that uh you know becomes a a big
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hit uh eventually uh
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