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TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – More than 15.81 million tourists Tourism Minister Arief Yahya said he was visiting Indonesia last year, up 12.58 percent from 14.04 million a year earlier, citing data from the Central Agency. statistics (BPS).
"In December 2018 alone, the number of tourists to Indonesia was 1.41 million, up 22.5 percent from the 1.15 million recorded in December 2017," he said. a statement released Sunday.
Malaysia dominated tourist arrivals to Indonesia last year with 2.50 million people, or 15.83 percent of total tourist arrivals.
With 2.50 million tourist arrivals, Malaysia took control of China, which ranked second with 2.14 million or 13.52% of the total.
The Ministry of Tourism ranked five countries among the top five sources of tourist arrivals to Indonesia last year. It was Malaysia with 2.50 million or 15.83%, China with 2.14 million or 13.52%, Singapore with 1.77 million or 11.19%, Timor-Leste with 1, 76 million or 11.15% and Australia with 1.30 million or 8.23%.
More than 5.45 million of the total tourist arrivals in 2018 came from other ASEAN member states, which represents an increase of 20.60% from 4.52 million l / year. last year. Meanwhile, the number of tourist arrivals from Asia, with the exception of ASEAN, stood at 5.84 million, an increase of 14, 11% compared to 5.12 million the year before.
The number of tourist arrivals from the Middle East reached 226,900 people, down 6.13% from 284,400 people.
Tourist arrivals from Europe accounted for € 2.008 million, an increase of 1.76% over 1.97 million, while those from America accounted for € 567.7 thousand. , up 5.71% from 537,000.
The number of tourist arrivals from Oceania (Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and other countries of Oceania) reached 1.57 million, an increase of 4, 43% compared to 1.50 million. Australia dominated the number of tourist arrivals from Oceania with 1.3 million, up 3.52% from 1.25 million.
Africa contributed to all tourist arrivals with 88,600 people, down 2.82% from 91,200.
the touristic arrivals in 2018 were below the government's target of $ 17 million for the year. However, the amount of foreign exchange earnings from the tourism sector would have increased considerably.
A series of natural disasters that affected several parts of Indonesia, especially the main tourist destinations, were responsible for the failure to achieve the goal of tourist arrivals.
Natural disasters included a series of earthquake in Lombok, the earthquake and tsunami that followed in Palu and the tsunami in Sunda Strait.
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