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MAGELANG, MONDAY - The number of foreign tourists to the Borobudur Temple is targeted to rise. If only 200,000 to 300,000 per year, starting in 2009 until 2019, the number of foreign tourists to the temple is targeted to increase to one million per year.

"With that, in a period of 10 years, the number of foreign tourists to the Borobudur Temple is expected to grow to 10 million people," said Director of Operations of PT Taman Wisata Candi Borobudur, Prambanan, and Ratu Boko Linus Jonan, found time on Monday (1 / 12) .

To meet these targets, Jonan said, the government is currently exploring cooperation with the airlines, so that later it can open a direct flight (direct flight) from a certain country to Yogyakarta, and then mail akukan road to Borobudur Temple.

"Currently, we are trying to make the direct flight can be opened in the countries of Europe and East Asia," he said. During this, the majority of foreign tourists in the Borobudur Temple is derived from Europe and East Asia

In addition, internal PT Taman Wisata Candi Borobudur, Prambanan, and Ratu Boko, also perform a variety of innovations to create packages that attract tourists and continue membenahi conditions in the area around the temple.

In this case, we will also involve the community of traders to set up the pavement (street vendors) in the area of the temple, the blogosphere. For planning and improvement of the physical temple, Jonan said, the government will also continue to enhance cooperation with the Central Concert VASI Heritage Borobudur.

Chinese Ambassador to Singapore Zhang Qiyue yesterday that come to visit Borobudur Temple said, both China and Indonesia is still trying to develop cooperation in order to increase the number of tourist visits to each country.

"For that, we also continue to promote the wealth of incessant touring and cultural heritage that belongs to each country," he said.

Concerning the direct flight, it can not ensure that can be implemented in the near future because they require more discussion and planning activities.

"However, we will continue to seek that the flight could be implemented in future years," he said.