Government Cooperate with Wanda Group to Develop Indonesian Tourism
By : Aldi Firhand Alqudri | Saturday, July 22 2017 - 23:29 IWST
Tourism Minister Arief Yahya
INDUSTRY.co.id - Jakarta, In order to develop tourism in a number of destinations in Indonesia, the Government took the Chinese conglomerate company, Wanda Group.
"Hubei Wanda is a big name in China, we invite to invest in the tourism industry in Indonesia," said Tourism Minister Arief Yahya, Sunday (18/12).
Wanda Group will enter a number of tourist destinations Indonesia through its subsidiary Hubei Wanda New Airlines Travel Services in the form of infrastructure investment and to bring tourists. One of the destinations of Wanda Group's investment destination is Morotai.
Menpar said that in Morotai, the company will partner with PT Jababeka Morotai as the developer of Special Economic Zone in order to build a tourism supporting infrastructure.
"They will start with about 10% or about 100 hectares of 1,000 hectares of total area. I hope starting in 2017 can already ground breaking, "said Arief Yahya.
Since the government issued PP No 50 of 2014 which made Morotai as a special economic area (KEK) of tourism, the government accelerate infrastructure development. One of them is airport.
PT Jababeka Morotai as the manager of KEK, is working hard to invite domestic and foreign investors to build amenitas and other facilities. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Tourism continues to promote the beauty of Morotai, with a museum of World War II under the sea.
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