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View all search resultsTourism Ministry rolls out integrated '3K' system for top 10 destinations
The government has created a new health, safety and security (3K) system and protocols to boost consumer confidence in traveling to the country's top 10 priority destinations.
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he Tourism and Creative Economy Ministry has introduced an integrated health, safety and security (3K) system to be implemented at the country’s top 10 priority destinations to help the floundering travel and tourism industry amid pandemic pressures.
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo announced in a prerecorded video at a 3K protocol simulation event on Nov. 12 that the system was intended to ensure the health and safety of tourists while visiting Indonesia.
“For the first time, Indonesia now has an integrated 3K system. The system will be first introduced in Labuan Bajo, and then implemented across all 10 priority destinations,” the President said, referring to the port town in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) that is considered the gateway to Komodo National Park and other destinations in the archipelagic province.
The 3K system is headed by a single command center that monitors tourist destinations and coordinates the responses of 23 ministries and government agencies in an emergency, ranging from natural disasters to transportation accidents and to health emergencies.
The agencies and institutions that coordinate under the system include local police forces, district military commands (Kodim) and Regional Disaster Mitigation Agencies (BPBDs), as well as the National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) and the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG).
The COVID-19 health emergency has devastated the tourist industry amid the imposition of the large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) in several regions and border closures to prevent virus transmission. According to Statistics Indonesia (BPS), the number of foreign tourist arrivals slumped 70.57 percent year-on-year between January and September to 3.56 million visitors.
Earlier on Nov. 4, strategic management director Wawan Rusiawan of the tourism ministry said that annual foreign arrivals was projected to decline significantly by 12 million to 13 million visitors from 16.11 million total visitors in 2019.
