Recently, a viral video of a shirtless, helmetless foreign tourist riding a motorcycle and getting into a heated argument with police officers in Bali went viral.
Coordinating Maritime Affairs and Investment Minister Luhut Pandjaitan called for the new levy to be imposed soon. “Don’t ever sell Indonesia short. We need to show them that we are a nation that greatly upholds cultural values, tradition and rules,” he said in an Instagram post on April 3.
Edy Misero, secretary-general of the Indonesian MSMEs Association , told The Jakarta Post on Tuesday that its members were concerned that such a tax negatively impact foreign tourism. He noted that some countries were a must-visit and could therefore afford to tax foreign visitors. “But in Indonesia’s case, are we needed by the tourists, or is it rather us who are chasing them to come?”
He also took issue with Luhut’s broader views on tourism in the country, saying that the idea to transition from mass tourism to what the minister called “quality tourism” was not realistic and based on a misconception. “Our tourist destinations are diversified. Wherever , there are non-star-rated hotels to five-star hotels,” he said, and that it was wrong to assume that tourists who did not stay at expensive hotels contributed less.
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