Foreign Tourist Arrivals to Indonesia Expected to Achieve Target in 2014

In fact a significant increase in foreign visitor arrivals to Bali, Indonesia's most popular island, was detected. In May 2014, a total of 285,965 foreign visitors entered Indonesia through Ngurah Rai International Airport on Bali, a 16.8 percentage point growth from the same month in 2013. The two other most important points of entry are Soekarno-Hatta International Airport (located just outside the capital city of Jakarta) and the island of Batam (near Singapore).

Foreign Tourist Arrivals in 2013-2014:

Month	Tourist Arrivals          2013	Tourist Arrivals          2014
January	614,328	753,079
February	678,415	702,666
March	725,316	765,607
April	646,117	726,332
May	700,708	752,363
June	789,594
July	717,784
August	771,009
September	770,878
October	719,900
November	807,422
December	766,966
Total	8,802,129	3,700,047

Foreign Tourists Arrivals 2007-2014:

	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014¹
Foreign Tourists (in millions)	5.51	6.23	6.32	7.00	7.65	8.04	8.80	9.5

^{¹ indicates government target
Source: Statistics Indonesia (BPS)}

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