The Indonesian Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) Bali chapter and the Bali Police are working together to verify security management at star-rated hotels as part of the preparations for the APEC Summit in October
he Indonesian Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) Bali chapter and the Bali Police are working together to verify security management at star-rated hotels as part of the preparations for the APEC Summit in October.
Ida Bagus Purwa Sidemen, PHRI executive director, said on Wednesday that verification of the four- and five-star hotels where APEC delegates were to be staying would be completed by the end of July. The verified hotels will obtain security standard certificates in August.
'We started the verification on April 11. As of this Tuesday, we have verified 11 hotels in the BTDC complex in Nusa Dua,' Sidemen told The Jakarta Post.
The verifications are conducted twice a week, every Tuesday and Friday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. by a team consisting of six police officers and four representatives from PHRI. It takes one day for the team to verify one hotel.
Thirteen hotels in the BTDC complex have been prioritized for verification as they will house APEC delegates. After the 13 hotels have been verified, the team will continue its work checking security management in the surrounding areas, including Sawangan, Tanjung Benoa, Ungasan, Jimbaran and Kuta.
Sidemen said that the association and the police were now prioritizing verification of hotels that would be occupied by APEC delegates, but they would continue until a total of 101 star-rated hotels in Bali, comprising 48 four-star hotels and 53 five-star hotels, had been verified.
'By the end of this year, we hope that we will have completed verification of 85 percent of those hotels.'
He said the verification was crucial to convince the APEC delegates that all star-rated hotels in Bali had certified security standards.
'We have received many questions from consulate generals from several countries asking whether the hotels where the delegates will stay are really secure, so the verification process is crucial.'
Djinaldi Gosana, executive director of the Bali Hotels Association, said that all its 112 members (four- and five-star hotels) were preparing for a security management audit by an independent certification body.
'The verification process that is now underway is the preliminary phase of the audit,' he explained.
The audit will be conducted once every three years, as the implementation of a 2011 Ministerial Regulation on Security Management Systems for hotels issued by the Tourism and Creative Economy Ministry.
Last month, the ministry and the National Police launched a security management system standard for accommodation facilities to be applied in all hotels nationwide, to enhance security as a crucial factor in the tourism sector.
According to the ministry, Indonesia ranks 72nd among the world's destinations in terms of security, with a grade of 4.7. Among other ASEAN countries, Indonesia is second best after Singapore, which ranks 13th at the global level.
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