Komodo a wonder no more

THE INDONESIAN government will continue promoting Komodo National Park through its Komodo the Real Wonder of the World campaign, after pulling its support for the attraction as a New Seven Wonders (N7W) of Nature competition finalist.

Indonesia minister of culture and tourism, Jero Wacik, said: “We will continue promoting the national park and develop it sustainably through our own campaign, using social media like Facebook and Twitter, and programmes such as concerts.”

The ministry last weekend withdrew Komodo National Park from the N7W of Nature contest, after competition organisers N7W Foundation sought to replace the ministry with Supporters of Winning Komodo (P2Komodo) as the lead agency representing the attraction.

The ministry and competition organisers have been a loggerheads over the past few months over the dropping of the national body as the attraction’s official supporting committee (TTG Asia e-Daily, February 10).

P2Komodo chairman, Emmy Hafild, said it was regretable that Komodo had been withdrawn from the competition.

She added that Komodo had stood a good chance of winning as P2Komodo was to be supported by three Indonesian cellular operators – Telkomsel, XL and Indosat.

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