In March 2014, tempo.co reported that Indonesia’s tourism and creative economy industry was been able to contribute foreign exchange (devisa) of up to 10 billion USD in 2013, this figure is 10.99 percent higher than the 9.87 billion USD of previous year. Indeed, Indonesia has a lot of tourism and creative economy potential. And so it is crucial for President-elect Joko “Jokowi” Widodo to choose a Minister for tourism and creative economy that would be able to do his/her job well. One of the names of likely candidates for the position of Minister of Tourism and Creative is the name of the current Vice Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy, Mr. Sapta Nirwandar.To subscribe please click here