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Arbia', 10 Muharam 1430 (Wednesday, January 7th, 2009)
Opinion
 | December 23rd, 2008 14:55 Attracting 6.4 million foreign tourists to a country so rich in sights and experiences that few places in the world can match it should be an easy task, even without an expensive government campaign. Yet somehow it wasn’t. Even with months of preparations and extensive promotions as part of the 2008 Visit Indonesia Year campaign, Indonesia fell short of its target for the year. By the end of October, the number of foreign ... detail... » |
 | December 19th, 2008 12:38 Michael Boyce Indonesia is lucky. Lucky to be blessed with breathtaking vistas, a people whose spirit of hospitality comes easily, a fascinating culture both preserved in history and lived out daily, and biodiversity matched by few countries in the world. And the food isn`t bad either. Actually, I take that back. Indonesia is very lucky. And I think most Indonesians know it. Most Indonesians outside the Ministry of Culture and ... detail... » |
 | December 16th, 2008 12:40 Winding road to heaven: Fatigue that came from hours spent on the long, narrow and snaking roads in a bus and on a 40-minute boat-ride finally wore-off when Zalina Mohd Som set her eyes on the breathtakingly beautiful Lake Toba. Medan - BETWEEN our arrival at Medan`s Polonia International Airport and “Overnight in Parapat”, the programme on our first day visit to Medan listed only “city tour” and “lunch in Medan”. “We`ll adjourn to our ... detail... » |
 | December 15th, 2008 11:38 Indonesia`s Lombok island sits just across a narrow strait from Bali. But unlike its sister island - a travel Mecca that has become even more popular thanks to Russian and Chinese package tours - Lombok has remained largely in the shadows, save for a trickle of foreign travellers who have discovered its charms. Now the bucolic island is gaining a following among tourists turned off by the commercialisation of Bali. A number of posh ... detail... » |
 | December 5th, 2008 11:46 By: Monique Bouma A magic spell is said to ring Lombok‘s tiny Gili Islands, and Monique Bouma can‘t wait to be bewitched again. All I see is coral slowly sweeping in and out; all I hear is the slurp of air through the snorkel. I float in a fantasy, the water like melted crystal on my sun-soaked skin. So clear that even the brooding stormclouds, building to a tantrum of tropical tears, hardly matter. The reef flickers with ... detail... » |
 | November 12th, 2008 12:54 By: Hyginus Hardoyo Denpasar - Concerted efforts designed to revive Bali`s tourism industry, which had been devastated by two violent bomb attacks on the resort island in 2002 and 2005, have born fruit. The tourism industry in Bali -- an island which is known by many names, including the island of Gods, the island of paradise and the island with thousands of temples -- has recorded steady growth as proven, among other things, by ... detail... » |
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