Crowded With Criticism, Coordinating Minister Luhut And Ganjar Finally Delay Ticket Prices Of IDR 750 Thousand To The Stupa Area Of Borobudur Temple

Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo talks with Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan in Semarang (Via ANTARA)

SEMARANG - Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo and 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'," said Ganjar after meeting with Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan at the Governor's Office. Central Java, Semarang, Antara, Tuesday, June 7th.

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, this was a lot of protests, I think it was settled and he agreed. This is not a matter of tariffs, 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.

Previously, Ganjar had given an explanation related to the circulating plan, namely the planned ticket price of IDR 750 thousand specifically for local tourists who want to go up to the building or stupa area of Borobudur Temple, while the entrance ticket to Borobudur Temple for local adult tourists is IDR 50 thousand.

Tourists who pay an entrance ticket of IDR 50 thousand only arrive at the courtyard of the Borobudur Temple or cannot go up to the stupa area of the Borobudur Temple.

Until now, tourists have not been allowed to go up to the stupa area of the Borobudur Temple and are only allowed to enter the temple courtyard area. "Enter the area and go up to the temple. These two things need to be conveyed to the public so they can know why there are restrictions on people going to the temple," said Ganjar some time ago.