Sandiaga Uno Invites Several Singapore Investors To Invest In The Indonesian Tourism Sector

Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy Sandiaga Uno. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy Sandiaga Uno invited a number of investors from Singapore whom he met on Friday (30/9) to invest in Indonesia's tourism sector as an effort to revive the economy.

"We met with six large companies in order to sign a cooperation in accordance with the President's direction to bring in digital nomads to improve the quality of tourist visits and have an impact on MSME actors in leading destinations such as Canggu Bali," said Sandiaga in a written statement, as quoted from Antara, Monday October 3rd.

During his visit to the Lion Country, Sandiaga held meetings with investors such as Bioeconomy, Far East Hospitality, CEO of Capital Land, and CEO of Red Doorz, as well as Capital Land.

The Indonesian government implemented policies for Ease of Doing Business (EODB) and investment so that it moved quickly to invite more investors to Indonesia.

Not only investors, Sandiaga met with Singapore's Minister of Health Ong Ye Kung to discuss cooperation in providing health and fitness-based tourism services in the country.

"Indonesia's strength is in wellness tourism and also several other services such as the Health SEZ in Sanur. If we can work together it will produce something extraordinary. So that this collaboration will not only provide excellent health services but also open up wide employment opportunities,” concluded Sandiaga.

Sandi also witnessed and facilitated ARTotel Group which was expanding its business overseas in collaboration with Far East Group in order to increase accommodation in the form of an international hotel network.

This collaboration is expected to have an impact on opening up business opportunities, supply chains. It will also facilitate students from Poltekpar to have the opportunity to do internships at the hotel chain.

He hopes that efforts to attract more tourism investors to Indonesia will boost the performance of the tourism sector and the creative economy in the country so that an economic revival will be realized after the pandemic.