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The ease in obtaining visa and the availability of transportation facilities are two important things to attract foreign tourists from Indonesia to India and vice versa. This was conveyed by Satya Widya Yudha, Deputy Chairman of Commission I of the House of Representatives (DPR RI), at the India Tourism Roadshow in Jakarta on Thursday (29/08).

“So my feedback is we should be able to make every country easier. So Indonesian to come to India easier and the Indian come to Indonesia easier. So in terms of visa, so (it) has to be reciprocals. You know what the India treated to us and the government of Indonesia did Indians the same way. So that’s the first one and the second one is transportation. I think Ambassador just mentioned about the reason of connecting Chennai directly to Bali, this is also one of, you know, infrastructure that will be the focus in the future in order to attract both citizenship of India and also Indonesia to just visit this country,” said Satya Widya Yudha.

On the same occasion, Indian Ambassador to Indonesia Pradeep Kumar Rawat said India has to work hard in attracting Indonesian tourists to India, one of which is through an Islamic religious tour package because in India there are several Islamic shrines which are visited by more than 50 million tourists per year. (VOI / AHM)