But Indonesia’s newly inaugurated President Prabowo Subianto may not want to curb Bali’s tourism.
BADUNG – On Indonesia’s beach-fringed resort island of Bali, fed-up locals want to slow the mass tourism that is their biggest money earner – hoping a plan to freeze hotel-building can restore some calm.
“Canggu is now busier... its tranquillity and greenery are gradually disappearing,” said Ms Kadek, who owns a motorcycle rental service that earns her seven million rupiah monthly. Foreign tourists spent an average of US$1,625 per visit in 2023, up from US$1,145 in 2019 before the Covid-19 pandemic, Indonesia’s statistics agency said.
Meeting island officials recently, he pledged a second international airport to turn Bali into “the new Singapore, the new Hong Kong... an economic centre”.
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