Interesting read: Indonesia lost 11 museums last year! WOW!
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Indonesia lost 11 museums last year
Hasyim Widhiarto , The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Fri, 01/15/2010 1:56 PM | National
At
least 11 museums in the country have stopped operating in the last year
mainly due to lack of funding, an official from the Tourism and Culture
Ministry says.
The ministry's director of museums, Intan
Mardiana Napitupulu, said Friday the directorate had obtained the data
after conducting a feasibility study prior to the launching of their
Visit Museum Year 2010 program in December last year.
”Some
museums weren’t regularly open for visitors, while others did not have
enough staff to manage the maintenance of their collections” Intan told
The Jakarta Post in his office.
With numbers reduced by museums
being closed down, Indonesia currently has a total of 272 museums, a
half of them run and financially supported by regional administrations.
According to data from the ministry, Indonesia attracted 6.46
million foreign visitors in 2009, a slight increase from 6.2 million
visitors a year earlier.
At the end of 2009, the ministry
launched the 2010 Visit Museum Year program, expecting the program to
help achieve its target of attracting 7 million foreign visitors and
drawing 230 million domestic tourist trips this year.
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