The Indonesian government has targeted to boost tourist arrivals from China to 300,000 from an average of 100,000 in recent years, local press said Tuesday.

 

"Indonesia has a huge opportunity to (boost) arrivals from China. We target a 300 percent increase in arrivals from that country this year," Minister of Culture and Tourism Jero Wacik was quoted by leading economic daily Bisnis Indonesia as saying.

 

Indonesia has targeted 6 million international arrivals and foreign exchange revenues of US$5.4 billion in the year.

 

(Xinhua News Agency March 6, 2007)