DESTINATION -During January to August 2009, Indonesia has been visited approximately 4.125 million foreign tourists

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DESTINATION -During January to August 2009, Indonesia has been visited approximately 4.125 million foreign tourists, up 1.38 percent from the same period the previous year which only 4.069 million people.

"Especially for foreign tourists visit in August 2009 of 566,797 people or minus decreased by 4.49 percent compared to the previous month of July 2009 reached 593,451 people," said Head of the Management Center and Data Network System (P2DSJ) Depbudpar, Ir. Wibowo, in his statement in the House Sapta Enchantment Jakarta, Friday.

The increase in foreign tourists visit in August 2009 took place in three main doors of the Ngurah Rai 232,164 people or 18.6 percent, as many as 3559 people Manado or up 73.78 percent and Mataram or as many as 1311 people rose by 5.3 percent.

"The entrance of 12 other like Soekarno-Hatta Cengkareng and Batam in August 2009 has decreased," he said.

The increase in cumulative foreign tourists visit in eight months (January-August period) in 2009 occurred in eight main door of Ngurah Rai Denpasar as much as 1,534,742 people or 13.3 percent increase, Juanda Surabaya 104,022 people (5.32 percent), Polonia Medan 98,605 people (17.29 percent), Minangkabau 38,219 people (63.13 percent), Manado 20,214 people (56.53 percent), Sultan Syarif Kasim Two 12,641 people (20.65 percent), Makassar 7567 people (226.59 percent) , and as many as 12,775 people Entikong (3.42 percent).

While foreign tourists visit the decline occurred through the seven gates into the Soekarno-Hatta of 927,200 people (-5.30 percent), Batam 629,283 people (-10.25 percent), Tanjung Pinang 69,236 people (-16.06 percent), Cape 41,576 people Priok (-7.85 percent), 10,661 people Adisumarmo (-23.95 percent), Mataram 9252 people (-2.73 percent), Sepinggan 6975 people (-8.66 percent), and the other door 602,716 ( -4.7 per cent).

Depbudpar until now remained optimistic target foreign tourists visit this year to 6.4 million foreign tourists set to close the year will be achieved. Optimism was based on a positive growth of tourism in the ground water in the middle of the sluggish international tourism business due to the impact of the global financial crisis.

Even in Asia Pacific, Indonesia is one country that experienced a positive tourism growth while most other countries it slipped down.

Depbudpar next year plans to increase the target number of visits of foreign tourists to around 7 million to close the year 2010.