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To increase foreign
exchange reserves, the government finally freed visa for 45 countries. With the
visa exemption, Indonesia targets tourist traffic levels increased 10 million of
previously reached 9 million tourists per year.
45 countries visa-free. We would expect an additional
approximately 1 million foreign tourists," said Tourism Minister Ariel
Yahya limited after the meeting at the presidential office on Monday (16 /
3/2015).
When converted into dollars, call Arief, the total foreign
tourists visit it will bring in revenues of US $ 1 billion annually. Counts
were obtained by assuming every tourists will benefit the country in 1200 US
dollars.
"Now we expect from this policy we will be a good
service for people that want to Visit Indonesia does not need to be confused anymore with the visa, the second number will
increase the number of visitors," he said.
Arief explained, this visa is applied for 45 countries
spread from Asia, Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, to Africa.
Countries in Asia such as China, Japan and South Korea. For
Pacific countries are the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and Mexico.
Others are Russia, Britain, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Spain,
Switzerland, Belgium, Sweden, Austria, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Poland,
Hungary, Czech Republic, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Oman and
South Africa.
According to Arief, how the visa exemption has been applied
first by Malaysia and Thailand. Currently, the number of tourists in the
neighboring country reached 27 million per year while Thailand's 26 million per
year.
"We are targeting within five years, we will beat the
two countries," he said.
The application of this visa will be valid from April 2015.
Visa is given for a short stay for 30 days. With the opening of the door to 45
countries, Arief recognizes similar yet valid visa for Indonesian tourists in
the country.
"When we open the first, then we'll ask them to do the
same," he said.