Events involving foreigners canceled

Events involving foreigners canceled

JAKARTA: Many events involving foreign participants have been
canceled, causing huge losses to the organizers, it was reported
on Wednesday.

Director of Panorama Conventions and Exhibitions, Rocky
Kalalo, told Antara that the events were canceled because the
foreign participants could not make it.

He said that a delegation from India had canceled their
participation in a tourism expo, scheduled for next month.

The news agency reported that some companies had moved the
venues of their events from here to Singapore.

Noor Huda Ismail, assistant to marketing manager of Jakarta
Convention Center (JCC) said the Indonesian Petroleum Association
canceled their event which was slated for next month.

But it is business as usual for exhibitions focused on local
consumers, such as computer and furniture exhibitions, he said.

Ismail said that JCC was not really affected by the
cancellations because 80 percent of the events in the building
targeted the local market.

As of September this year, there were 250 events held at JCC,
compared to 347 for the same period last year. --JP