Resort group established

Resort group established

JAKARTA (JP): Director General of Tourism Andi Mappi Sammeng
yesterday inaugurated the new Indonesian Association of Tourist
Resorts.

The association will be led from 1996 to 2000 by chairman Jan
Arifin of PT Lombok Tourism Development Corporation and deputy
chairman Sammy Supit of PT Esa Tama Abadi. The association's
leadership team also includes Steve Winokan of PT Bali Turtle
Island Development, Felix Parlindungan of PT Bakrie Nirwana
Resort, Robert Puang Sunur of PT Putra Sentra Prasarana, Tjok
Ngurah Swastika of PT Bali Nusa Dua and Muki Probowinoto of PT
Mulia Colliman Int'l.

The new association, which groups 41 firms, plans to prepare a
blueprint for tourist resort development in Indonesia and to
catalog an inventory of problems which may halt the development.

By September 1996, the Investment Coordinating Board had
approved investment proposals for the construction of 113 tourist
resorts in 17 provinces. More than half will be established in
Java and Bali (57.5 percent), while the rest will be built in
Sumatra (20.4 percent) and in Indonesia's east (22.1 percent).

The construction of most of the projects, worth a total of
US$5.5 billion, have progressed slowly due to poor infrastructure
and complicated bureaucracy. (icn)