Wonderful Indonesia! New Bali!

September 30, 2017

Proud to be Indonesian!

Begin on 2014 as Jokowi elected to be the president of Indonesia. His proposes a program called "NAWA CITA". This program leads all of the improvements happened in Indonesia. The word Nawa Cita taken from Sanskrit (Bahasa Sansekerta), 'Nawa' means nine and 'Cita' means hope, agenda, and wish. Making the program real Jokowi prioritizing several industries to gain economics improvement which are food, energy, maritime, tourism, and last but not least industrial and special economic zone.

focused on tourism part.......

Indonesia tourism industry growing incredibly! Last year (2016) the number of arriving international tourist reached 11.5 million people, contributing up to 4% to the GDP.

Increasing the number of international tourists is a big deal. Helped by the Minister of Tourism, Arief Yahya, Jokowi's plan turn out to be realized in step by step. Arief Yahya set the target of 15 million international tourists for 2017 and 19 million international tourists on 2019. The target number seems to be very optimistic, but he said the calculation was made based on last year tourism growth which is 10%.

What is their strategy to achieve the target?

15 million international tourists hopefully will be achieved by the current strategy: Bali Baru or New Bali

Do you know the words of "Bali Baru" or translated as "New Bali"?

People work in hospitality and tourism industry must be familiar with this phrase. Realizing that the target number is so great that we can't achieved by only relying to our "Amazing" Bali Island, The Minister of Tourism wants to develop another potential places as a tourism destination. Among the potential destination in Indonesia, there are 10 destinations chosen to be the priority destination to develop. The 10 priority destination was called as 'Bali Baru' or 'New Bali'. The word Bali was taken as Bali has known by people around the world for its beauty, and Indonesia wants to introduce the 10 new destination which also as beautiful as Bali.

Here are the 10 Priority Destination which called as New Bali!

North Sumatra - Lake Toba

Lake Toba
More Information of Lake Toba:
http://www.indonesia.travel/en/destination/area/lake-toba
Bangka Belitung - Tanjung Kelayang Beach

Tanjung Kelayang Beach
For more Information please visit:
http://www.indonesia-tourism.com/bangka-belitung/tanjung-kelayang/
Banten - Tanjung Lesung

Tanjung Lesung
For more information please visit:
http://www.indonesia.travel/en/destination/point-of-interest/tanjung-lesung
DKI Jakarta - Kepulauan Seribu

Kepulauan Seribu
For More Information please visit:
http://www.indonesia.travel/en/post/10-islands-to-plunge-into-in-jakarta-s-thousand-islands
Central Java - Borobudur Temple

Borobudur Temple
For more information please visit:
http://www.indonesia.travel/en/destination/point-of-interest/borobudur
East Java - Bromo Mountain

Bromo Mountain
For additional information please visit:
http://www.indonesia.travel/en/destination/point-of-interest/mount-bromo
West Nusa Tenggara - Mandalika Lombok

Mandalika Lombok
More Information:
www.indonesia.travel/en/destination/area/lombok
East Nusa Tenggara - Komodo Island

Komodo Island
More infomation please visit:
http://www.indonesia.travel/en/destination/point-of-interest/komodo-national-park
Southeast Sulawesi - Wakatobi National Parks

Wakatobi Island
For detail information please visit:
http://www.indonesia.travel/en/destination/area/wakatobi
North Maluku - Morotai

Dodola Island in Morotai
For additional information please visit:
http://www.indonesia.travel/en/destination/point-of-interest/morotai-island