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Strategic Sustainable Tourism Development in Indonesia
Roby Ardiwidjaja. Researcher at the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Indonesia. The quality of the environment is essential for tourism. However, tourism's relationship with many activities has negative environmental effects. On the other hand, tourism has the potential to create beneficial effects on the environment by contributing to environmental protection and conservation.

Traditonal Cruise and/ or River Cruise: a proposal based on Historical and Cultural Background
Presented by Harry Waluyo. ASEAN Cruise Working Group in Lao PDR, 23 April 2008. Background. Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia are rooted from Austronesia language groups; Viet Nam, Thai, Khmer, Myanmar, Lao are part of Mon-Khmer language groups. Those language groups are rooted from Proto-Austronesia since 5 thousand years ago.

Statistic of Culture and Tourism
By Harry Waluyo. This booklet consist of statistic of culture and tourism in year 2007. Published by The Centre of Data Management and Network System, Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Indonesia.

Visitor Arrivals to Indonesia in 2006
Inbound tourist 2006

The Homeland of Sailendra Family
In this opportunity I will present about the Sailendra Dynasty. The evidence from the presence of this dynasty was mentioned in some inscriptions. Around the beginning of the 90s, I was interviewed by the Army Force of Thailand Kingdoms television. The interview was about the existence of the rvijaya in the southern part of Thailand, where a stone inscription known as Ligor Inscription was found.

Culture Satellite Account
Summarized by Harry Waluyo. An Approach measuring the economic and social importance of culture.

General ICT Overview
Presented by Harry Waluyo (Data and Information Centre)

Package Policy to Improve Investment Climate, Announced
Finally, the long awaited Investment Policy package, that was promised to boost investments was announced on 2 March.

Bali - Mass Tourism in Developing Countries
An excerpt from Olesja Buchner's essay, a cultural study on Bali by the La Trobe University Melbourne graduate. The essay itself is not available either in this site or the Ministry's archive. You can obtain it by downloading it from an external site (payment required). The Ministry, however, doesn't have any affiliation with the commercial site. We simply endorse this essay in hoping that more essays about Indonesian culture and tourism done by nonIndonesians will pop out in the near future.