Visit Indonesia Year

Visit Indonesia YearWas a New Order Indonesia inaugurated series of years of promoting Indonesia to the world tourism industry. [ Parpostel Annual Report 1992 ISBN 9798280008 page 31 ] It was considered as part of the Visit Indonesia Decade [ Presidential Decree Number 60/1992 dated October 21 1992 regarding Visit Indonesia Decade - op.cit. p.31] The Years were announced by Suharto at the beginning of each year during his time in power, and it was his presidential decisions that made the operation of the years function within governmental process. As part of the 1994/1995 - 1999/2000 five year plan, the government set a target of 6.5 million foreign tourists bringing in US$9 billion in foreign exchange, with 84.2 million domestic tourists spending Rp9 trillion. It was hoped that tourism would generate 900,000 new jobs [ "Indonesia 1999: An Official Handbook" pp. 65, 174, Department of Information, Republic of Indonesia. No ISBN]

The first year was the "Visit Indonesia Year 1991" [ Presidential Decree Number 3/1989 regarding Visit Indonesia Year 1991 - op.cit.p.31 ]

Visit Indonesia Decade themes

Were set as:-

* 1993 - Environment Year (Lingkunan Hidup)
* 1994 - The Role of Women in Development, Youth and Sports Year
* 1995 - 50 Years of R.I. Independence (Golden Anniversary)
* 1996 - Sea and Air Year
* 1997 - Telecommunications Year
* 1998 - Art and Culture Year
* 1999 - Craft and Engineering Year
* 2000 - Using the Technology for Raising the Standard of Living Year

It was re - continued after some years of absence in 2008 with the ttheme of "Celebrating 100 years of National Awakening" [ http://www.my-indonesia.info/page.php?ic=1133&id=3142 ]

ee also

*Tourism in Indonesia

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