Sad News Comes From Aceh Tourism, During 2021 No Tourists Visit

JAKARTA - The Aceh Central Statistics Agency (BPS) noted that no foreign tourists will visit the local province during 2021, considering that there are still restrictions for foreign tourists to enter Indonesia due to COVID-19.

Head of BPS Aceh Ihsanurrijal said that no foreign tourists entered through the arrival gate of Aceh in February 2021, or experienced a 100 percent decrease compared to February 2020.

"During the restrictions on flights and overseas shipping, the number of foreign tourist arrivals in February 2021 will be non-existent", said Ihsanurrijal in Banda Aceh, reported by Antara, Thursday, April 1.

Not only in February, he continued, the same conditions also occurred in January 2021.

He explained that in February 2020 foreign tourist visits to Aceh reached 4,030 people including citizens of Malaysia, China, France, Germany, Australia, Japan, the United States, Singapore, Britain, Thailand, and other countries.

Meanwhile, in the accumulative January-February 2020 visits of foreign tourists to Aceh, it reached 8,012 people. The most dominant are tourists from Malaysia, reaching 6,059 people.

Meanwhile, the Deputy for Distribution and Services Statistics, BPS Setianto, said that foreign tourists visiting Indonesia reached 117,000 visits in February 2021, which decreased to 86.59 percent compared to the number of foreign tourists visiting February 2020.

"In February this year the decline is still quite sharp compared to last year", he said in a virtual press conference in Jakarta.

When compared with the previous month, namely January 2021, the number of foreign tourist visits in February 2021 decreased quite significantly by 14.74 percent.

Thus, cumulatively in the period January-February 2021, the number of foreign tourist visits reached 254,230 visits or decreased by 88.25 percent when compared to the number of foreign tourist visits in the same period in 2020 which amounted to 2.16 million visits.

Judging by the air entrances, the number of foreign tourist visits to Indonesia in February 2021 decreased by 98.74 percent compared to the number of foreign tourist visits in February 2020.

Most of the airports experienced a 100 percent decline, namely at Husein Sastranegara Airport, West Java; Adi Sucipto / YIA Airport, Yogyakarta Special Region; Lombok International Airport, West Nusa Tenggara; Minangkabau airport.

Then West Sumatra; Sultan Iskandar Muda Airport, Aceh; Ahmad Yani Airport, Central Java; Supadio Airport, West Kalimantan; Hasanuddin Airport, South Sulawesi; and Sultan Badaruddin II Airport, South Sumatra.