REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The Indonesian Tourism Ministry is taking part in the Nanyang Cultural Festival, being organized in the Chinese province of Henan, from April 20 to April 26, 2016.

Assistant Deputy for Asia Pacific Market Development of the Tourism Ministry, Vinsensius Jamadu, said in Jakarta on Thursday that his ministry's mission at the festival was to attract Chinese tourists to visit Indonesia. China is one of the main markets for Indonesian tourism.

At the festival, the Ministry of Tourism staged a number of traditional arts performances and presented various Indonesian special foods such as rendang (meat simmered in spices and coconut milk), fried rice, satay, chicken soup, oxtail soup and rawon (beef stew and other fixings) soup.

"Indonesian culinary dishes are the most appropriate for Chinese taste buds as they like savory and spicy foods," noted Vinsensius Jemadu, who also attended the inauguration of the "Wonderful Indonesia" restaurant in Hebei, Anhui province, China, recently.

At the festival, the tourism ministry put up a special stand and disseminated information to visitors about various flagship tourism destinations in Indonesia.

The ministry promoted at least 10 primary tourism destinations, namely the Buddhist Temple of Borobudur, the Mandalaika, the Labuhan Bajo, the Bromo-Tengger-Semeru, the Seribu Islands, the Lake Toba, the Wakatobi, the Tanjung Lesung, Morotai and the Tanjung Kelayang tourist destinations.

This promotion is in line with Tourism Minister Arief Yahya's appeal to tourism officials to ensure that the Indonesian tourism marketing promotion efforts across the world result in better contacts with the media. These should also promote the various deregulation measures undertaken by the Indonesian government to provide easy visa to tourists intending to visit Indonesia.

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