The operator of Ragunan Zoo in Jakarta is targeting between 3.5 million and 4 million visitors this year, the Jakarta Post has reported. The attraction last year recorded a 25% rise in visitor numbers, the zoo’s Marsawitri Gumay was reported saying, without specifying figures. The zoo currently exhibits 274 species of animal.
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Despite the absence of government’s affirmation on the exact day of Idul Fitri festivity this year, the mass public traveling period out of the capital city has commenced on Monday. Hundreds of people were seen swarming to Indonesia’s airports, train stations and bus stations, seeking chances to go out of Jakarta earlier in a more comfortable […]
Indonesia’s flag carrier Garuda will open 16 new royutes this year, comprising 13 domestic and three international routes, and add more aircraft to its fleet, the airline company announced Saturday. The new routes will begin gradual operation from Jan. 16, and will later be supported by 14 new Boeing 737-NG aircraft to be delivered in mid-2009. The […]
“REMEMBER those?” I ask my 9-year-old son as we drive through the Javanese countryside. We are three abreast on a two-lane highway alongside a cement truck and a motorbike, all of us competing to pass a colorfully decorated bicycle rickshaw.“They're called becaks,” I say, surprised that the word had come back to me after all this […]
Domestic Indonesian tourists have started flocking to Bali’s Kuta beach ahead of the Idul Fitri celebration, the Jakarta Post has reported. However refurbishment work on the beach is still being carried out, despite the influx. According to reports the movement of heavy equipment, including excavators, amid relaxing tourists, has caused inconvenience.Head of the Kuta Beach […]
A new breed of buses has hit the streets of Indonesia, the Jakarta Post has reported. The ‘Komodo’ buses, named after the remote island and its reptilian inhabitants, are predominantly locally made, costing an estimated IDR3 billion (US$322,000) less that imported buses, and benefitting the local community.The buses will be adorned with images of the […]