Promoting Labuan Bajo In Kazakshtan, Deputy Regent Of West Mabar Appreciates Ambassador Fadjroel Rahman
JAKARTA - Deputy Regent (Wabup) West Manggarai Yulianus Weng received a group of Indonesian Ambassadors to Kazakshtan in Labuan Bajo. He gave his appreciation to the Indonesian Ambassador (Ambassador) for Astana, Kazakshtan Fadjroel Rahman who wanted to establish tourism cooperation with the local government in the form of Labuan Bajo promotion in Kazakhstan. High appreciation for the Ambassador. We are very proud, because choosing Labuan Bajo in particular and West Manggarai is generally the location of tourism cooperation development," he said in a statement received in Labuan Bajo, quoted from ANTARA, Saturday, March 2. He explained that the West Manggarai Regency Government welcomed the very good cooperation offer submitted by the Indonesian Ambassador to Astana, Kazakshtan Fadjroel Rahman, because there are many tourist attractions in Indonesia, but Ambassador Fadjroel prefers Labuan Bajo. He explained that Labuan Bajo tourism has recently been more echoing, this is inseparable from direct intervention from the President of the Republic of Indonesia Joko Widodo. "We must be grateful to President Jokowi. His intervention makes Labuan Bajo more global," he continued, among others by making Labuan Bajo as a place for national and international-scale activities, such as the ASEAN Summit.
In addition, by disbursing funds sourced from the APBN for infrastructure development in Labuan Bajo. Indonesian Ambassador to Astana, Kazakhstan, Fadjroel Rahman, was in Labuan Bajo to escort a team from the Indonesian Embassy who will conduct a Familination Trip (Famtrip) from February 29 to March 3, 2024.Famtrip began face-to-face with the West Manggarai Regency government represented by West Manggarai Deputy Regent Yulianus Weng. The Famtrip delegation consists of 4 Kazakshtan mass media journalists and 1 film producer.
They will document and create content at destinations visited and disseminate information on tourist destinations in cooperation in film production, both documentaries and commercials. Ambassador Fadjroel acknowledged that cooperation with the government of West Manggarai Regency, in the form of tourism promotion Labuan Bajo in Kazakhstan, is important to implement, because in 2023, the number of tourists from Kazakhstan and Tajikistan visiting Labuan Bajo increased dramatically. "In our note, the number of tourists from Kazakhstan and Tajikistan who came to visit Indonesia increased very drastically. In 2022, the number was only 1,878 tourists. Meanwhile, in 2023, the number was 7,308, an increase of 389 percent. Of that amount, of course, most came to Labuan Bajo," explained Ambassador Fadjroel.