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Thursday 05 Nov 2015 - 13:18 Makkah mean time-23-1-1437
Pic: From The Citizen Daily
Jakarta (IINA) – Indonesia is confident of achieving its yearly target of welcoming 10 million international visitors by the end of 2015 despite the reduced arrivals in Sumatra and Kalimantan, caused by forest fires and haze pollution, Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reported.
According to the Indonesian Central Agency on Statistics (BPS), in the January-September period, the country welcomed 7.9 million international tourists, a 3.53 percent increase against the same period last year.
Nearly 870,000 international holiday-makers enjoyed their holidays in Indonesia in September alone, up 10 percent from 2014 and 2.2 percent from August.
Head of the BPS Suryamin said the visa-exemption policy for additional 40 countries is the reason behind the strong growth of foreign tourists to Indonesia. If the trend sustains in the remaining months, Indonesia believes it could achieve the goal of attracting 10 million international tourists in 2015.
The Indonesian government established the goal of attracting 12 million international tourists in 2016 and one of the strategic measures towards achieving this goal is to exempt visa for another 45 countries by the end of 2015, bringing the number of countries enjoying Indonesia's 30-day visa exemption policy to 90.
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