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Jakarta gets young thoughts on tourism
Sat, 12/06/2008 11:33 AM | City
JAKARTA: The tourism agency will soon announce the winner of a competition for students to create a concept for the city's tourism industry.
Arie Budhiman, the agency's head, said his agency had held the contest to get an idea of how young people see tourism and to get their input.
"Some of the concepts are good. For example, how to boost shopping, create nightlife, organize meetings and conventions and tour packages. Of course, we can't implement all the concepts, but we're happy to see their enthusiasm," he said.
He said that of about 30 entrants, the jury had short-listed six teams. The winner will be announced on Dec. 11, he said.
The six teams are Ondel-ondel from Pelita Harapan University, Jakartaholic from STIKOM LPSR, the Integrity Team from the Indonesia Banking School and the Optimist Team, JOI Team and the ABC Team from the University of Indonesia.
Arie said the winning concept would be used as input to market the tourism better. -- JP
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Jonathan (not verified) — Fri, 12/12/2008 - 11:57am
to increase tourism in jakarta:
1) renovate, upgrade or build a new airport that are competitive to its neighbours (no need to mention names here), with clean toilets please.
2. Fire those greedy customs officers asking for "gifts"
2. manage the infrastructure to curb traffic jams and floods
3. clean up the streets and smelly damns
4. lower crime rates and change the ugly police uniforms
5. Eliminate the anti porn law
Trust me, this will work .
Dewi Rania (not verified) — Sat, 12/06/2008 - 1:15pm
Each time i listen to Antara Anyer Dan Jakarta, it tickles me a bit as it brings back a lot of nice memory I had in jakarta. Till now, jakarta is the most favorite and frequented city in my itinerary. Despite born and bred in Kuala lumpur, Jakarta always finds itself full with colors and splendor. With its boisterous streets and abundant food hawkers, it will continue to spring up and offer attractions which I believe none of asian cities able to do. Keep it alive, and I am optimistic Jakarta will be one of the cities in the world map that people reckon as a wonderful place to visit.