Sandiaga Ensures That The Rp. 750 Thousand Borobudur Temple Rise Increase, Announced By Luhut Pandjaitan, Is Postponed

BAUBAU - Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy (Menparekraf) Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno said the increase in entry fees for the Borobudur Temple destination was postponed for review.

"For Borobudur, thank God, thanks to input from all community leaders, religious leaders, experts, the decision on the cost is still being postponed for review. But of course it is certain that the carrying capacity limit is only 1,200 per day," said Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy Sandiaga Uno when asked journalists in Baubau, Southeast Sulawesi, reported by Antara, Wednesday, June 8.

Sandiaga's presence in Baubau City was a visit to the Indonesian Tourism Village Award (ADWI), where the Limbo Wolio Tourism Village in the Buton (Wolio) palace fort area entered the top 50, outperforming 3,500 other villages in the country.

"Indeed, to maintain it, you must involve the community, the government and all of them. The enthusiasm of the community was extraordinary, I saw in other places there was no support as enthusiastic as this time. So let's work together to maintain it as an order according to President Joko widodo's expectations that tourism must rise, the economy must grow, and jobs must be opened," he said.

Previously reported, the Governor of Central Java Ganjar Pranowo and the Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan agreed to postpone the implementation of the plan to increase ticket prices to the stupa area at Borobudur Temple.

"We postponed it first. Earlier, the Minister (Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan) had said, 'We will postpone the governor first, so that the story doesn't go anywhere,'" Ganjar said after meeting with Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan at the Governor's Office. Central Java, Semarang reported by Antara, Tuesday, June 7.

Previously, Governor Ganjar Pranowo suggested that the implementation of the increase in ticket prices for the Borobudur Temple stupa area be postponed. According to Ganjar, several steps were needed before the ticket price hike was finally implemented, especially since many people protested against the plan.

The application of increasing ticket prices to the stupa area of Borobudur Temple, he continued, needs to be reviewed again with the Borobudur Temple Tourism Park (TWC) and the Borobudur Conservation Center.

"I conveyed to him, there were many who protested, I think it was settled and he agreed. This is about the tariff, don't talk about it first, post it first, and indeed TWC and the hall are communicating, so people don't need to worry. That's important to convey," he said. .

The former member of the DPR explained that the arrangement in the Borobudur Temple area is still being carried out so that the best schemes must be found to regulate tourists who want to go up to the temple stupa area.

Either with quota restrictions or with other instruments, such as determining the ticket price for the Borobudur Temple stupa area.