Tourism in Indonesia

Good morning, ladies and Gentlemen.

First of all, lets thanks to God because of His blessing so we can gather here today
in this speech contest. Its such an honor for me to stand here in front of you all,
therefore, I want to thank for the opportunity that has been given to me to deliver
my speech with title Tourism in Indonesia.
Before I deliever my speech, I am going to draw your attention by telling you the
composition of my speeh which I derived it into three parts. They are:
First, General Description of Indonesia.
Second, Problems faced by Indonesia.
Third, Sollutions for the Problem.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Indonesia is a unique nation in the world that not like any other nation in the world.
Especially because Indonesia located in the equator line that makes this nation have
variated kind of nature even if it in flora and also fauna. More, the enchanment of
Indonesia , is like a pearl, as the biggest archipelagic state in the world is a credit.
With five big islands and more 17.589 other smalll islands including those 6000
unoccupied ones, indonesia is populated by 450 tribes speaking 583 of different
local dialects. Such diversity, however amalgamaties under the very national
language which indonesian. The indonesian culture which includes traditional
ceremonies, dances, dresses, cuisines, language, handicrafts and others constitutes
the great pride of Nusantara. Thus, with the abudance of its natural resources and
wealth of cultural heritage, Indonesia is ought to show up in the world arena making
those things recognized as the indonesian genuine culture and then the culture will
be the attracting pointh for the wave of tourists all over the world.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
So as the riches nation of culture and nature in the world, Indonesia should become
a rich and success nation, am I right? But the fact is different. why we are laggiing
behind? Instead of seeing Indonesia as an endless experience for both cultural and
natural discoveries, the world only knows Bali and almost nothing beyond. Indonesia
not even the top 10 of favourite tourist destinations in the region. Something is not
right, is it? We are not selling our tourism aggressive enough, there is no
coordinated marketing plan to promote Indonesia as a tourist destination, Indonesia
only gives a tourist 30 days on arrival and charges them $25 while Most of the
countries in the region 60 days for free then corruption, both at the airport and
inside the country deters visitors. No one wants to visit a place where the
immigration officers are asking for money, police coming to their hotel because they
did not register themselves.

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For me the the best and fastest way to sell Indonesia is through mass media and
advertisement and such efforts must be government sponsored for exampel they
have to upgrade the transportation infrastructure, replace those naughty
immigration officers and reconcern the rules they legalized. Considering that
improved tourism will also benefit the public as a whole. The Singapore, Hong Kong
and Malaysia tourism boards have been flooding their world with their enciting
advertisement through TV, megazines and billboards. I dont see why we can not
duplicate their tactics. But again there is nothing like personal advertising. The
surest way to get tourists is by personal invitations, friends always visit one to
another. Each of us is tourist ambassador for our country. The point is, please
abolish that narrow minded worse- than-colonial rent-seeking fiscal policy for our
outbond travellers. So, let us be free and make connections with the outside world.
If each of us can introduce ourselves to five people in foreign lands, imagine the
potential impact!
Ladies and Gentlemen,
This is the end of my speech. I do hope this have brought some good messages for
us that can be used for the proggresion of our national tourism industry. Sorry for
inconvinient words that I might have said. Good morning and God bless us all.