Damaged Due To The COVID-19 Pandemic, Taman Nusa Gianyar Will Be Repaired By Kemenparekraf

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy has prepared an aid scheme to help improve the infrastructure of the Taman Nusa cultural center tourist destination in Gianyar Regency, Bali. The cultural tourism park, which provides comprehensive knowledge about the culture of various Indonesian ethnicities, is currently experiencing severe damage due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

"We will include it in one of the National Economic Recovery (PEN) programs because we see that what is offered here is the diversity of cultures and the single diversity that is presented at Taman Nusa," said Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy, Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno, while visiting Taman Nusa, quoted from BETWEEN, Saturday, March 26.

During his visit he saw firsthand the current condition of Taman Nusa, where various infrastructures, especially typical buildings from all over Indonesia, were damaged due to the absence of tourist visits during the pandemic.

"In short, we saw a tremendous impact from this pandemic, as you can see for yourself how these two years have been so hard for the tourism industry and jobs that have been hit by this pandemic," he said.

He explained, they are trying to revitalize Taman Nusa because it is present as part of the government's task quickly, and accurately, we will intervene in policies that will later be drawn up.

"Later, we will also cooperate with innovative financing, we will help the management of Taman Nusa with an approach that is certainly collaborative and adaptive to activate and revive so as to open up more job opportunities for workers here," he said.

He stated, after being repaired, his party plans to make Taman Nusa a side event location for the Coordination Meeting for the revival of tourism and the national creative economy which will be held in the second half of the second semester of 2022.

"We have to wake up with a new economic order, Mr. President Jokowi entrusted us that we must be responsive to the needs that are needed, because Bali is the arena of the G20 going forward," he said.

Meanwhile, the Indonesian Commissioner for Taman Nusantara, AA Ngurah Alit Wiraputra, explained that the cost of revitalizing and repairing Taman Nusa requires funds of around Rp. 3 billion.

"We were very affected. Before the Covid-19 pandemic, tourist visits to Taman Nusa averaged 3,000-5,000 people, but now there are only three to five people and there are no tourist visits at all," he said.