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During the school holidays start mid-June to early July garden tour National Monument (Monas) visited about 180,000 thousand domestic tourists and foreign countries.

Ageng Darmintono Kasubag Administration Manager unità National Monument and Cultural Tourism Department of Jakarta, Sunday, said, visits increased approximately 14 percent from the previous vacation year around 154,000 tourists visit foreign and domestic.

Meanwhile, the number of 180,000 visits over the holidays about 2 percent or about 36,000 tourists from countries such as Malaysia, Australia, the United States, Singapore, Vietnam, Brunei Darussalam and several countries in Asia and Europe.

While the remaining 98 percent or about 144,000 visits came from the domestic tourists who come from several areas in Indonesia.

He added, about 40 percent of the 180,000 visits, or approximately 72,000 people who come to the Monument of the school and college students. While about 60 percent or about 108,000 tourists from the adults or the public.

During this holiday season, go Ageng, showing some of the typical local showtimes arts in Indonesia, which was conducted in the usual cup Monument on Saturday and Sunday.

In addition, the manager also offers a number of other tourism which is still located in the environment of Monument, which is the reflection garden stone, train tours, water fountains enchantment, bookmobile, deer park and some cultural tourism which is packed with other activities in the Monument.

He said, domestic tourists, and visit foreign countries who came to Monument average rose about 14 percent, in 2007 approximately 708,000 visitors in 2008, and as many as 888,000 visitors this year targeted about 900,000 visitors.