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Thailand hosts Wonderful Indonesia Festival
The event featured a screening of the award-winning video and a parade of carnival costumes from Malang Amore Carnival.
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Wat Benchamabophit Dusitvanaram temple, also known as the marble temple, in Bangkok, Thailand. (Shutterstock/File)
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onderful Indonesia Festival held its opening event on the evening of Nov. 17 at One World Mall, Bangkok, Thailand. The event featured a screening of the award-winning Wonderful Indonesia tourism video titled Wonderful Indonesia: The Journey of a Wonderful World and a parade of carnival costumes from Malang Amore Carnival.
“These costumes are so nice, so unique,” said a visitor named Adul Chaiprasithikul. Another visitor named Pongsudhirak also complimented the costumes, “It’s fantastic, seeing Indonesian carnival costumes do not bore me."
Malang Amore Carnival has won numerous international awards for best costumes in Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam and Berlin.
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“We want to show the people of Bangkok that our original costumes can compete globally. Tourism Minister Arief Yahya has numerous times invited us to several travel marts, festivals and shows in different parts of the world,” told Malang Amore Carnival founder Yoseph Agus Kristian.
Indonesian ambassador to Thailand Ahmad Rusdi praised the event, “I’m happy that the event is exciting and gained praises from a lot of diplomats from other countries. Everything looks great, I hope after this, the number of tourist visits from Thailand will increase sharply,” said Ahmad.
In 2016, Thailand welcomed 32.4 million international tourists, “This is the survey data from Mastercard Index of Global Destination Cities, if we could get 10 percent from the total number, it would be great and looking at the trend I feel like we are heading there,” he added. (asw)
