Jan. 6, Online
Culture and Tourism Minister Jero Wacik said Thursday the government would soon launch its latest tourism campaign slogan, “Wonderful Indonesia”.
The slogan will be used for the next two years, and has received positive responses so far, Jero said Thursday.
“We’ll begin using ‘Wonderful Indonesia’ in January 2011. We’ve had [positive] feedback from friends abroad, who said ‘Wonderful Indonesia’ is good because Indonesia does have wonderful, beautiful nature, wonderful cultures, wonderful people and wonderful food ... so we deserve to be called wonderful,” Jero told reporters in Jakarta.
Your comments:
I work in the tourist industry and I can tell you that Indonesia’s base for tourism is Bali. The problem is that Bali has become overpopulated as many people from across the archipelago come to the island.
Bali’s population increases by 400,000 every year — both from births and migration from other islands.
If there are no plans to stop or curb this exodus to Bali, then this “Wonderful Indonesia” campaign will be a waste of money.
When you have people coming to an island waiting to find paradise on earth, and find themselves stuck in traffic jams for hours during their stay, then you will have big problems called negative expectation syndrome.
Herly
Denpasar
Can anybody participate in the process of creating, managing and running this campaign? I’m wondering and interested.
Mayya
Jakarta
I’m an Indonesian who has been living in Vancouver, B.C. for 4 years. I have never heard or read anything about Indonesia promoting its own tourism or even the country: Nothing.
Meanwhile, I saw a lot of ads, commercials, posters from countries like Thailand or Singapore doing their best to attract people. And sadly, I also saw ones from Malaysia, which, yes obviously shamelessly, has stolen Indonesian (Javanese) culture, to invite tourists.
So, what are we going to do with this “Wonderful Indonesia”? Just let it be a slogan for nothing? You don’t need slogans, Mr. Minister. You need action:
Change the slogan; make sure there is no discrimination against anyone (no more attacks on Christians or burning/bombing of churches); make sure there are no more radicals roaming around the country who think they have the right to do anything. Go on, work! Do something! Use the funds for real measures.
Agus
Vancouver
If presenters from TV travel programs from around the world were to come to Indonesia to find out what a holiday in Indonesia was like, for potential holidaymakers, many of whom world be spending a lot of money to get there, then later share their experiences in their TV programs, would anyone still be saying “Wonderful Indonesia”?
Saying something does not make it true; apparently a lesson the Indonesian government has yet to learn. Stupefied, dazzled and delirious by the apparent brilliance of its own inane, puerile rhetoric, the Culture and Tourism Ministry has demonstrated once again the meaning of the word “deluded”.
Maurice Gold
Sanur, Bali
The tourism minister should sell many other parts of Indonesia. I have friends who just came back from diving in Lombok in West Nusa Tenggara and Raja Ampat in Papua, etc. They loved it.
Jorgensen
Denmark
Fix the Jakarta traffic. I am not going to visit a country where it takes three hours to go 3 miles.
Peter
Holland
