Tourists on religious visit in Kalimantan

Tourists on religious visit in Kalimantan

BANJARMASIN, South Kalimantan: Nine Californian tourists have
just completed a visit to South Kalimantan province.

Instead of visiting normal tourist attractions during their
visit to the province, the Californians opted to concentrate on
religious and educational institutions. For example, they paid a
courtesy call on prominent Muslim cleric Zaini Abdul Ghani in
Martapura, the capital of Banjar regency, and visited a number of
English language teaching institutions in Banjarmasin, the
capital of South Kalimantan.

"The tourists were delighted with the visit. They said South
Kalimantan people were friendly and open-minded, and that people here
were not hostile to foreigners," said Yuseran, a former activist
with the Indonesian Muslim Students Association (HMI), who
accompanied the tourists during their visit, which ended a few
days ago. -- Antara