Travel agents warned

Travel agents warned

JAKARTA (JP): The government is threatening to cancel the licenses of more than 700 travel agents in Indonesia for limiting their operations to the sale of airline tickets, an official says.

"About 40 percent of the 1,769 travel agents in Indonesia merely sell airline tickets, instead of offering full travel services. We will revoke their licenses if they do not remedy this," Azhari Abdullah, director of travel agent supervision of the Ministry of Tourism, Post and Telecommunications, said yesterday.

Azhari said that the government had recently revoked the permits of 12 travel agents in North Sumatra for the same reason.

He did not reveal whether the ministry had set a deadline for recalcitrant travel agents to clean up their acts. (hdj)