Menparekraf Sandiaga Uno Calls 2022 So The Momentum Of Rise Of Indonesian Tourism

JAKARTA - In 2022, the world tourism sector will revive. Tourists are again lifting suitcases for traveling, both abroad. Especially since the lockdown in various countries was revoked.

Mengatakan Menteri Pariwisata dan Ekonomi Kreatif (Menparekraf) Sandiaga Salahudin Uno, hingga Oktober 2022 ada 3,92 juta wisatawan yang datang. Jumlah itu naik signifikan dibandingkan 2021 yang hanya 1,56 juta wisatawan asing.

"The number of foreign tourists who have 3.92 million until October 2022, we are optimistic that in 2023 it can increase between 3.5-7.4 million foreign tourists coming to Indonesia," said Sandiaga Uno, Wednesday, December 28.

Meanwhile, the number of domestic tourist movements (wisnus) until October 2022 reached 633-703 million movements, up from 2021 which was only 603.02 million. In 2023, the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy targets an increase in movement of 1.2 to 1.4 billion.

Based on a survey by the Central Statistics Agency (BPS), tourism's gross domestic revenue (GDP) in 2022 until the third quarter temporarily reached 3.6 percent, a significant increase from 2021 which was only 2.40 percent. In 2023, the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy targets to contribute 4.1 percent.

The value of foreign tourism in 2022 temporary data has reached USD4.26 billion, a significant increase from 2021, which is only USD 0.49 billion.

"With the continued improving conditions of the pandemic and stable economic growth, we are optimistic that in 2023 its contribution can increase again at USD2.07-5.95 billion," Sandiaga explained.

Sandiaga Uno said that another positive note in 2022, including creative economy exports (Ekraf) until November 2022, had reached US24.79 billion, the added value of Ekraf reached IDR 1.236 trillion.

"The number of tourism workers also increased to 22.89 million people in 2022, while the creative economy reached 23.98 million people," he said.

Furthermore, Sandiaga Uno said, 2022 will be a point of revival in Indonesia's tourism sector and creative economy, which will recover faster, to rise stronger.

In fact, the revival became the focus of decision-making leaders in their considerations regarding Indonesia's economic growth.

The global economic recession is indeed a challenge, but we must remain optimistic, based on our data and projections, these targets have outperformed other Southeast Asian countries such as Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia. Therefore, recession is the biggest challenge and focus for the Tourism and Creative Economy sector," Sandiaga concluded.