INDONESIA’s Ministry of Tourism claims visitor arrivals reached 10.4 million in 2015, surpassing the nation’s target of 10 million.
A media statement from the Ministry of Tourism this week stated that Minister of Tourism Arief Yahya applauded the achievement, which he said was even higher than the preliminary data obtained last month.
The figure the ministry used was based on data issued by Statistics Indonesia, which broke down the figure into 9,729,350 tourists, 370,869 “border crossing foreign citizens” and 306,540 “other foreign visitors who stayed less than one year”.
Statistics Indonesia explained in a press statement: “The number of international arrivals has so far been calculated based on the immigration official reports, which have included foreign citizens who have entered using visas, visa-free, as well as electronic pass cards, and Indonesian citizens living overseas (visiting their home country).”
“To complete the information, this year’s report includes data of other foreign citizens’ traffic, comprising of border crossing foreign citizens and those who stayed in the country less than one year.”
Based on this, actual foreign arrivals fell short of last year’s targets, but is still 3.1 per cent higher than the same period in 2014 where there were 9,435,411 visitors recorded.
