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Malaysia Sun
11 hours ago
- Business
- Malaysia Sun
Indonesia sees 9 pct rise in foreign tourist arrivals in April
Xinhua 02 Jun 2025, 16:45 GMT+10 JAKARTA, June 2 (Xinhua) -- A total of 1.16 million visitor arrivals were recorded in Indonesia during April, up 9.15 percent year-on-year, according to the latest data released by Statistics Indonesia. Malaysia was the largest source of visitors during the month, followed by Australia and the Chinese mainland, according to the agency's deputy for distribution and services, Pudji Ismartini, who spoke at a press conference on Monday. She also reported that the cumulative number of foreign tourist arrivals between January and April was approximately 4.3 million visits, representing a 5.6 percent increase compared to the same period last year. The Southeast Asian country aims to receive up to 16 million foreign tourist arrivals in 2025.
The Star
12 hours ago
- Business
- The Star
Tourism rising - Indonesia sees nine per cent rise in foreign tourist arrivals in April; Malaysians largest source of visitors
JAKARTA (Xinhua): A total of 1.16 million visitor arrivals were recorded in Indonesia during April, up 9.15 per cent year-on-year, according to the latest data released by Statistics Indonesia. Malaysia was the largest source of visitors during the month, followed by Australia and the Chinese mainland, according to the agency's deputy for distribution and services, Pudji Ismartini, who spoke at a press conference on Monday. She also reported that the cumulative number of foreign tourist arrivals between January and April was approximately 4.3 million visits, representing a 5.6 percent increase compared to the same period last year. The South-East Asian country aims to receive up to 16 million foreign tourist arrivals in 2025. - Xinhua
The Star
2 days ago
- General
- The Star
Jakarta battles open defecation with communal toilets
JAKARTA: Thousands of Jakartan households are still practicing open defecation across the city due to overcrowding and poor housing conditions. The city administration is pushing to build more communal toilets to address the issue, but experts argue it will not be enough to solve the problem. A 53-year-old resident of Penjaringan in North Jakarta, who asked to use the pseudonym Apriyandi, was one of them. He lives in a low-income housing area under the toll road in Pejagalan subdistrict in Penjaringan which stretches along the polluted banks of Angke River and lacks basic hygiene and sanitation facilities. Apriyandi himself lives in a 30-square-metre home, which provides insufficient space to build a private toilet for his family of four. 'That's why we have to defecate outside [our home] near the river. We often do it quietly,' he told The Jakarta Post on Wednesday (May 28). Apriyandi's neighborhood has some shared toilet facilities, but they are not enough to cover thousands of people living in the neighborhood. While acknowledging the health impact of dumping his waste improperly, he said that defecating in open spaces was just more practical and cheaper, since people need to pay to use the public toilet. 'It's not just me, many others do the same. The river is just closer than the toilet and I don't have to pay and queue,' said Apriyandi, who works as a day labourer. The local neighborhood unit (RT) head Karsin admitted that many people living under the toll road have a habit of defecating in the field, road and other open spaces, largely due to inadequate housing, causing their waste to pollute the nearby environment. 'We often see their feces floating in the waterways or, worse, in our home's water channels,' Karsin said, adding that a piece of feces floated into his house during a flood. He conveyed his hope that authorities would build more proper public toilets in the neighborhood to prevent open defecation. A 2024 data from the Statistics Indonesia (BPS) revealed that 0.19 per cent of total households in the city, or 5,300 households, were still practicing open defecation. Only five provinces in the country were declared free from open defecation: East Java, Yogyakarta, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB), South Sulawesi and Central Java. Under Governor Pramono Anung, the city administration has pledged to revitalise all the city's low-income housing areas by 2027, with 55 kampungs undergoing infrastructure upgrades this year. The governor also announced a plan to build more communal toilets in dense neighbourhoods to solve the sanitation problem in the city. While authorities view the provision of public toilets as a way to solve the sanitation issue in the city, they can also push for residents to build private toilets in their homes that are connected to a shared septic tank, according to environmental health expert Corie Indria Prasasti from Surabaya-based Airlangga University. Building more public toilets, she added, could only be an option in a situation of tight economic and space constraints if the facility meets the health and safety requirements. 'The most important thing is to reduce contact between human feces with animals,' Corie said. 'Human feces contains infectious pathogens, the contact may lead to disease transmission.' However, building more communal toilets may not be a panacea for the open defecation problem, said urban sociologist Rakhmat Hidayat from Jakarta State University, as the issue stems from the lack of access to decent housing for thousands, if not millions, of people. '[Communal toilets] are one of the quick and temporary solutions,' Rakhmat said, while asserting the importance of affordable housing and the public right to proper sanitation. Heavily relying on shared toilets would only perpetuate the idea that 'poor families have to line up and share with others' to fulfill their basic rights, he went on to say. Aside from building communal toilets, Pramono's administration also plans to build two rusunawa (low-cost rental apartment) complexes and renovate another that comprising 1,153 apartment units by next year. The rusunawas will be designated for low-income families. - The Jakarta Post/ANN
South China Morning Post
07-05-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
Indonesia's economy slows as US tariffs, fiscal pressures challenge Prabowo's growth goal
Indonesia 's economy posted its slowest growth rate in over three years, with analysts warning that fiscal pressures, sluggish consumer spending, and the ripple effects of American tariffs could further dampen the country's economic outlook this year. Advertisement According to official data released by Statistics Indonesia on Monday, the economy grew by 4.87 per cent year on year in the January to March period, down from 5.02 per cent the previous quarter. The slowdown could challenge President Prabowo Subianto 's pledge to increase annual growth in Southeast Asia's largest economy to 8 per cent by the end of his five-year term in 2029, analysts say. Prabowo's administration is contending with external pressures, including global economic headwinds from the US-China trade war and the threat of Washington's hefty 'reciprocal' tariffs, slated for 32 per cent. Economists note that tightening fiscal constraints are hindering domestic growth. At the beginning of the year, Prabowo's government implemented spending cuts and reallocations to finance his flagship programmes, leading to a slowdown in public spending. Advertisement
Qatar Tribune
05-05-2025
- Business
- Qatar Tribune
Indonesia growth slows in Q1 2025
Agencies Indonesia's economic growth slowed in the first quarter of 2025 as domestic consumption weakened, official data showed Monday. Southeast Asia's largest economy expanded by 4.87 percent in the first three months of the year, Statistics Indonesia said, the slowest since the third quarter of 2021 and down from the 5.11 percent growth recorded in the same period last year. Quarter-on-quarter, gross domestic product fell 0.98 percent. The archipelago's economic growth was largely supported by household consumption, the largest contributor to GDP expansion, as well as exports, Statistics Indonesia head Amalia Adininggar Widyasanti said. Household consumption was helped by holiday spending with Ramadan and the Eid Al-Fitr festival falling in March this year but still grew just 4.89 percent, down from 4.91 percent in the first quarter of last year. The government has targeted the economy to expand by 5.2 percent this year, and President Prabowo Subianto had set an ambitious goal of eight percent growth by 2029. Prabowo has introduced several controversial policies since he was sworn in last October, including free meal programs that critics said put a huge burden on state coffers and massive cuts to government spending, triggering student protests across the country. Economic activity is expected to weaken in the coming months on the back of sluggish exports, economists said. 'Indonesia is one of the least trade dependent economies in the region and we don't think Trump tariffs will have a huge direct impact on the economy,' Capital Economics senior Asia economist Gareth Leather said. 'Nevertheless, Indonesia will still feel the impact as the recent decline in commodity prices weighs on export earnings.'
