Indonesia : Bali named national tourism pilot project

Indonesia : Bali named national tourism pilot project

The Tourism and Creative Economy Ministry has designated Bali as a pilot project for the development of national strategic tourism planning (KSPN), which started early in June.

KSPN will cover a tourist area in which all elements and components of tourism have certain characteristics, including natural and cultural conditions.

The central government has named 88 KSPNs across the country to be developed until 2025.

Sixteen of the 88 KSPN have been named top priorities, including three destinations in Bali; Kintamani resort and Lake Batur in Bangli regency; Pemuteran and Menjangan Island in Buleleng regency; and Kuta Sanur Nusa Dua, which lie in Badung regency and Denpasar mayoralty. 

The remaining 13 destinations are Seribu Islands in Jakarta; Old Town and Sunda Kelapa, Lake Toba in North Sumatra; Borobudur Temple and surroundings in Central Java; Bromo-Tengger and Semeru in East Java; Mount Rinjani in West Nusa Tenggara; Komodo Island in East Nusa Tenggara; Ende-Kelimutu in East Nusa Tenggara; Tanjung Puting in Central Kalimantan; Bunaken in North Sulawesi; Wakatobi in Central Sulawesi; Toraja in South Sulawesi and Raja Ampat in West Papua.

According to the ministry’s director of tourist destinations and investment, Lokot Ahmad Enda, the plan should have been implemented last year.

But it was postponed until June this year, Enda said. It will be initially implemented in the Kuta-Sanur-Nusa Dua area, which are already lucrative tourist destinations.

“Kuta-Sanur-Nusa Dua will become an exemplary tourism designated area for other sites in Indonesia,” he explained.

Enda further said that the designation of Bali as a pilot project was based on several considerations.

First, Bali was already an international tourist destination with adequate facilities and supporting regulations to oversee tourism on the island.

“In Bali, we want to show an integrated tourist industry that involves all community members, administrations, the private sector and other parties. The pilot project is expected to become a collaboration of all stake holders in developing and managing a tourist site,” he explained.

KSPN, Enda added, is part of the bigger plan of the National Tourism Development Plan, which covers the development of tourist destinations, tourist attractions, accessibility, public facilities, basic infrastructure and community involvement.

Meanwhile, Bali Tourism office head Ida Bagus Kade Subhiksu said the KSPN was implemented by the central government through the Tourism and Creative Economy Ministry.

Bali has 16 main official tourist destinations, namely Nuda Dua, Kuta, Tuban, Sanur, Ubud, Lebih, Soka, Kalibukbuk, Batuampar, Candikusuma, Perancak, Nusa Penida, Candi Dasa, Ujung, Tulamben and Air Sanih.

The provincial administration has also named five other specific tourist sites: Gilimanuk and Palasari village in Jembrana, Tanah Lot in Tabanan, Pancasari in Buleleng and Kintamani in Bangli.

“In short, KSPN is an effort to unite several tourist spots into one larger area. KSPN is meant to create a blue print for a tourism development plan at a particular tourist site,” Subhiksu said.

University of Udayana’s Consortium of Tourism Research and Study chairman Agung Suryawan Wiranatha said the university was included in the implementation of KSPN in Bali.

The university is currently collecting data and information and analyzing each area’s potential and challenges.

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by  WASTI ATMODJO ON 2013-06-28

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