Statistic of Indonesia Tourism Income

In 2008, tourist arrivals to Indonesia increased by 13.2%. The Economic crisis and travel advisories warning not give much impact to the Indonesia Tourism. If we compare with our neighbor country Thailand, Indonesia is better caused in the same year Thailand getting security trouble, where anti-government protests closed the country’s main international airport during November 2008. According to the data and explanation of Tourism and Culture minister of Indonesia Jero Wacik, Indonesia estimate receipt income about US$7.33 billion.

However, 2009 Will Be Challenging, one of the most important to increase and easier the travel of tourist is air travel but this country has black note record. In April 2009, the pilot of the Garuda Indonesia Boeing 737 that crashed at Yogyakarta Airport in March 2007, killing 21 people, was found guilty of criminal negligence and jailed for two years. Marwoto Komar ignored some 15 cockpit warnings not to land his plane as he tried to land at twice the safe speed .Reaction from families of the five Australian victims has been critical, with many saying that a two-year sentence was too lenient. Indeed, prosecutors had been seeking a longer four-year term. Certainly, the trial has done much to remind foreign travelers that air travel in Indonesia remains less safe than elsewhere in the region.

However, it is not only the problem for our Tourism, so many other problems that could make the tourism-visiting statistic down, e.g. public election and economic crisis. Public election process could be making awareness to the visitors make security stability in Indonesia unstable. But as Indonesian we must try hard to keep good condition and find other way to increase the Indonesia tourism visiting.

As comparison of tourism statistic visiting, we could see table below.

Year	Tourist Amount	Expenditure/men (US$)		Staying Average (day)	National Income (million US$)
		/visit	/day
2001	5.153.620	1.053,36	100,42	10,49	5.396,26
2002	5.033.400	893,26	91,29	9,79	4.305,56
2003	4.467.021	903,74	93,27	9,69	4.037,02
2004	5.321.165	901,66	95,17	9,47	4.797,88
2005	5.002.101	904,00	99,86	9,05	4.521,89
2006	4.871.351	913,09	100,48	9,09	4.447,98
2007	5.505.759	970,98	107,70	9,02	5.345,98
2008	6.429.027	1.178,54	137,38	8,58	7.377,39

Source: Statistical Report on Visitor Arrivals to Indonesia

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