Indonesia’s Ministry of Tourism and the Jetstar Group has signed an MoU to deepen cooperation on tourism and promote growth in international tourism to Indonesia.
The MoU is expected to help Indonesia reach its target of attracting 15 million international arrivals this year and 20 million arrivals in 2019, as the government looks to add four million seats in 2017 and an additional 10.5 million seats by 2019.
Indonesian minister of tourism Arief Yahya said: “With up to 80 per cent of international tourists arriving into Indonesia by air, the role that airlines like the Jetstar Group plays will be critical in enabling the Indonesian Government achieve its 2017 and 2019’s tourism targets.”
Jetstar Asia’s Bara Pasupathi, Jetstar Airways’ Dean Salter, and Indonesian Ministry of Tourism’s Ukus Kuswara and Arief Yahya
The partnership will see more services to Indonesia’s main tourism destinations and joint marketing and promotional activities in Australia and Asia Pacific.
Operating more than 120 return flights a week to Indonesia, Australian-based Jetstar Airways and Singapore-based Jetstar Asia carry 1.4 million passengers annually to and from six first- and second-tier cities in Indonesia.
Singapore-based Jetstar Asia operates more than 60 return flights a week from Singapore to six of the busiest metro cities in Indonesia – Denpasar, Jakarta, Medan-Kuanalamu, Surabaya, Pekanbaru and Palembang. It is also the only Singapore-based LCC to serve both Sumatra and Java.
