The maximum number of tourists who ride to Borobudur Temple

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The maximum number of tourists who ride to Borobudur Temple, Magelang District, will be limited. This work is done deliberately to prevent the occurrence of rock weathering and the temple due to the burden of the visitors who come membeludak on certain days.

Unit Head Park Borobudur PUJO Suwarno said, to determine the maximum number of visitors increased to Borobudur, the study will be to study first. "Hopefully, the maximum number of restrictions the number of visitors to the temple of study, can be directly carried out this year also," he said, Sunday (10 / 7).

On weekdays, the number of visitors Borobudur 2000 ranged up to 4000 people per day. However, the special at the time such as holiday seasons and school holidays Lebaran, the number of visitors could reach 40,000 hi membeludak ngga 50,000 people per day.

Sometimes, the number of visitors make a path out of tourists ago thatch mas uk temples, disrupted. This condition is feared that a bad impact speed of damage, corrosion, and pengeroposan rock temples that have been aged thousands of years.

In addition to limiting the number of visitors, PUJO, said efforts to maintain the sustainability of this temple is also done with the attempt to develop tourism enjoy Borobudur from a distance, precisely Hamlet's Maitan, Borobudur Village, Kecamatan Borobudur.

"In this way, the equity will be a while coming visitors. Tourists are not only concentrated in the temple, but also come to enjoy the scenery and visiting the villages around it," he said.

This year, PUJO explain, his side will also be issued new rules to keep kesakralan Borobudur is a Buddhist holy building. This new rule of which contain restrictions for visitors to climb the building's core and the stupa and other stupa-stupa in the surrounding areas. This prohibition adjust the Buddhist teachings that the sacred stupa adalan building that must be respected.

According PUJO, other provisions that will be applied this year, contains about every visitor to wear a glove when the temple. This menyam akan happens when the tourists visit the Pura Besakih in Bali.

Central Java Governor Bibit Waluyo in the Holy Tri Waisak in the Borobudur Temple, Saturday (9 / 5), the preservation and empowerment of the Borobudur need perh atian, touch and concern of the whole community, especially the Buddhists across the country.

"In this case, we hope that hopefully people can be a Buddhist temple of Borobudur pioneer development in order to be majestic and beautiful," he said.

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