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View all search resultsInbound tourism inches up in January
Indonesia has recorded a slight increase in its inbound tourism, welcoming 1.01 million foreign visitors in January, Statistics Indonesia (BPS) data show.
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Tourists watch the sunrise at the Borobudur temple tourist park in Magelang, Central Java, on Jan. 1, 2026. (Antara/Anis Efizudin)
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ndonesia has recorded a slight increase in its inbound tourism, welcoming 1.01 million foreign visitors in January, according to Statistics Indonesia (BPS).
BPS official Ateng Hartono reported in a press conference on Monday that January’s foreign arrivals inched up 1.11 percent compared with the same month last year.
The figure is based on arrivals recorded at the country’s main entry points, including international airports, seaports and border crossing points.
The number of foreign nationals entering the archipelago decreased by 17.06 percent month-to-month (mtm), which BPS described as a “normalization pattern” following a typical seasonal spike in December, when the number of international visitors reached 1.2 million.
The annual increase, meanwhile, showed that “Indonesia’s tourism remains within its positive and sustained growth trajectory”, the latest BPS report states.
Most of the foreign tourists entered Indonesia in January through Ngurah Rai International Airport in Denpasar, Bali, and Soekarno Hatta International Airport in Tangerang, Banten, which together welcomed 712,950 visitors, 89.06 percent of the total inbound tourism.
The seaports of Batam and Tanjung Uban in Riau Islands served as the main entry points for sea transportation with 142,870 arrivals combined. Road transportation, meanwhile, brought in 40,510 visitors, mostly from Atambua in East Nusa Tenggara and the Jayapura border crossing in Papua.
