BKPM Encourages Sustainable Investment In The Indonesian Tourism Sector

Illustration. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Investment/Investment Coordinating Agency (BKPM) encourages sustainable investment in the Indonesian tourism sector.

Deputy for Investment Promotion, Nurul Ichwan conveyed the importance of increasing investment realization in investment (PMDN), one of which is through the tourism sector. With the increasing target of realization from year to year, it is hoped that the proportion of PMDN can exceed the level of investment realization in foreign investment (PMA).

"The high level of investment realization in PMDN is important for us, because with a greater PMDN rate than PMA, it means that all business activities that we carry out, starting from assets, capital, local expertise, they all belong to the country. Including if there is profit or dividend from business activities, it can be maintained domestically in contrast to PMA," said Nurul in Jakarta, quoted from Antara, Saturday, September 21.

The Ministry of Investment/BKPM has again held a Regional Investment Forum (RIF) which was held in Legian, Bali. RIF is an annual investment forum held three times a year, where activities in Bali are closed this year, after previously being held in Batam as a representative of the western Indonesian location, and Makassar as a representative of the eastern Indonesian location.

Bali was chosen as the location for the central part of Indonesia's representative. This activity is packaged in the form of window shopping and oration of investment opportunities from the regions and a discussion of panel themed Introducing Natural and Cultural Advantages: Increasing Sustainable Investment in the Tourism Sector.

RIF is expected to be an event for local governments to promote investment opportunities from their respective regions to business actors, especially in the tourism sector, as well as provide opportunities for interaction and extracting interest in new investment plans in the future.

The activities attended by approximately 100 participants came from representatives of the Provincial and Regency One Stop Integrated Service and Investment Service (DPMPTSP) in Bali and outside Bali, associations of business actors in the tourism sector and representatives of companies in Bali and outside Bali.

In this activity, there are also one-on-one meetings that are a forum for investors who are interested in exploring investment opportunities that have been brought and offered by several agencies, including the Borobudur Authority (BPO) Implementing Agency, Likupang Special Economic Zone Management (KEK), and from the Bali Provincial Government, Central Java, Banten, East Java, to Central Kalimantan.

For information, I Made Agus Aryawan as the Head of the Investment and One Stop Integrated Service (DPMPTSP) of Badung Regency who was present on behalf of the Badung Regent expressed his appreciation for the implementation of the Investment Forum in Bali. The more tourism potential that is socialized to the wider community, it is hoped that more investment will enter.

Bali Province, in the first semester of this year, managed to record investment realization of IDR 18 trillion, almost equivalent to last year's achievement. For the tourism sector (hotels and restaurants), as one of the dominant sectors in Bali, in the last 5 years it has achieved investment realization of IDR 31 trillion or contributed 36.3 percent to the total investment realization in Bali. The realization of PMDN investment in the last 5 years reached IDR 15.19 trillion or 48.7 percent of the total investment realization in the tourism sector of Bali Province.