Foreign tourist arrivals in Indonesia jumped 567.27 percent year-on-year to 701.93 thousand in February 2023, amid several international events as the economy fully reopened from COVID restrictions. The number of arrivals by air in Bali, the center of the Indonesian tourism industry, climbed 24,425 percent to 317.1 thousand. Also, tourists reaching Jakarta jumped 712.7 percent to 125.5 thousand.
In addition, the number of arrivals by ship in Batam soared by 22,289.4 percent to 73.7 thousand. Tourists from Malaysia soared by 127.0 percent. In 2022, tourist arrivals surged 251.3 percent to 5.47 million, exceeding the government’s target of 3.6 million visitors, buoyed by a recovery in global travel. The Southeast Asian nation has set a target of more than 7 million visitors this year.