Foreign Tourists Visiting Indonesia Has Decreased by 88.95 Percent
A Worker Disinfect Bali Beach Spot (photos: JakartaPost/Zul Trio Anggono)
BUMNINC.COM | The number of foreign tourist visits to Indonesia as of September 2020 has decreased by 88.95 percent or as much as 153,500 visitors compared to September 2019 which amounted to 1.39 million visits.
This was conveyed by the Head of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS), Suhariyanto through a virtual press conference on Monday (2/11/2020). He explained, when compared to August 2020, the number of foreign tourist visits in September 2020 had decreased by 5.94 percent.
“Looking at the data listed in the tourism sector, it is suspected that it will still take time to recover from the impact of COVID-19,” said Suhariyanto.
Of the 153,500 foreign tourists visiting Indonesia, 9,970 visited by air entrances, then as many as 48,460 visits through sea entrances, and as many as 95,070 visits via land entrances.
Based on the data above, Suhariyanto explained that the number of foreign tourists visiting through air entrances in September 2020 had decreased by 98.89 percent compared to the same period the previous year.
The decline in foreign tourist visits occurred at all air entrances, where the lowest percentage decline was recorded at Sam Ratulangi Airport (North Sulawesi) of 81.69 percent.
Then followed by Soekarno-Hatta Airport (Banten) and Ahmad Yani Airport (Central Java) amounting to 96.47 percent and 99.49 percent, respectively.
Meanwhile Adi Sucipto Airport (Yogyakarta Special Region), Lombok International Airport (West Nusa Tenggara), Supadio Airport (West Kalimantan), Hasanuddin Airport (South Sulawesi), and Sultan Badarudin II Airport (South Sumatra) experienced a decrease of 100.00 percent.
This means that cumulatively during January-September 2020, the number of foreign tourists visiting Indonesia reached 3.56 million visits or decreased by 70.57 percent when compared to the number of foreign tourists visiting in the same period in 2019, which totaled 12.10 million visits. []
