W. Jakarta lacks tourist sites

The head of the West Jakarta Tourism Office, Parlindungan Hutabarat, expressed concern over the lack of large-scale tourist attraction sites in the West Jakarta mayoralty.

West Jakarta is the only mayoralty in Jakarta which has a limited number of tourist attractions, he said.

Large-scale tourist centers are badly needed to enable the mayoralty to accommodate a greater number of tourists, he said. According to him, the mayoralty currently functions as the city's gateway for visitors, especially those arriving by plane at the Soekarno-Hatta airport and others coming by land transportation means from the western part of the country.

He said that existing tourist sites in West Jakarta consists of small-scale amusement centers only.

Parlindungan said that investors are more willing to invest in the establishment of international night clubs or other kinds of small-scale entertainment places.

In other regions, there are selections of tourist sites. North Jakarta, for example, offers maritime tourism along its seashores. There is also the Ancol Dreamland tourist area and private cottages on various islands in the Seribu Islands chain. (23)