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News Focus: RI IDUL FITRI HOLIDAY MAKERS THRONG RECREATION CENTERS
by Andi Abdussalam
Jakarta, Oct 3 9ANTARA) - Entering the second day of Lebaran, the period of post-fasting month festivities, on Thursday, hundreds of thousands of Indonesian holiday makers thronged popular recreation centers such the Jaya Ancol Dream Land and Ragunan Zoo in Jakarta, Tanah Lot in Bali and the Surabaya Zoo in East Java.
In Jakarta, tens of thousands of holiday makers poured into Jaya Ancol Dream Land recreation center in North Jakarta. About 100,000 visitors packed the recreation center, exceeding the number of visitors which reached 80,000 in the previous day on Wednesday.
Most holiday makers spent time sitting on the beach, while others went swimming. Almost all open spaces in the dream land complex were packed with visitors.
The alley which connects the beach with other tourist sites in the dream land was also full of local tourists.
Other spaces were used by visitors to sit down on mats they hired from leasers. Some others hired lifebuoys for swimming.
Not far from the beach, music groups performed to entertain visitors. The groups appeared in turns to present songs that were not alien to visitors' ears. One of the favorite sites within the Ancol Dream Land which was thronged by visitors was Pantai Indah.
Tens of thousands of visitors were scattered in various tourist objects and sites in the dream land.
Another favorite site was the Fantasy World (Dufan). It was packed with visitors since morning. They lined up in queues to purchase tickets at the windows of the Dufan ticket sales counter.
Other recreation centers in Jakarta were also visited by record numbers of local tourists.
The Ragunan Zoon in South Jakarta was packed with about 100,000 visitors. They came from Jakarta's satellite towns of Tangerang, Bekasi and Bogor.
The zoo management's spokesman, Marzuki, said the number of visitors to Ragunan Zoo was predicted to be even more than Thursday's on Saturday and Sunday or the fourth and fifth days after Lebaran.
"The number of visitors today or the second day of Lebaran is estimated to be more than 100,000 because on the second day of Lebaran last year the number reached 146,000," Marzuki said.
He said the zoo, situated in the suburb of Ragunan in the southern part of the city, was a popular place to visit, particularly during holidays.
Laid out in a lush tropical setting, such indigenous animals as the Komodo lizard, tapir, anoa, Java tiger, banteng (bull), wild ox and brightly colored birds are given ample spaces in a green environemnt.
Marzuki said the new primates were centered at Ragunan Zoo, a world-class facility designed to both entertain and educate young and old people alike.
Outside Java Island, holiday makers also flocked to recreation centers in Bali, Indonesia's best known tourist resort province.
Thousands of domestic tourists visited Tanah Lot ,for example.
The number of foreign, domestic and local tourists visiting the tourist resort of Tanah Lot in Bali's Tabanan district during the current Idul Fitri holidays had increased four-fold.
"The increase in the number of visitors has taken place since two days before the Idul Fitri holidays began on Wednesday," I Made Sujana R.Par, head of the operations section of the Tanah Lot Tourist Resort Operator, said.
"On other days, the number of visitors is recorded at an average of 3,000. It jumps up to 12,000 tourists over the past few days," he said.
The post-fasting month holidays, locally called 'lebaran' this year started on Monday and will end on Sunday this week.
The increase of holidaymakers in Tanah Lot has begun to be felt two days before the Lebaran D-Day on Wednesday, he said.
Sujana said that the dominant visitors were domestic tourists who came from various provinces in Indonesia, followed by foreign tourists and local visitors.
He said he had to provide an extra parking lot of about two hectares to accommodate the vehicles of tourists who came with their private cars.
Tanah Lot only has a parking lot of 1.5 hectare with a capacity of accommodating 400 cars. But an extra parking lot had been prepared two days before the D-Day on Wednesday.
Due to its attractiveness, Tanah Lost is able to place itself in the second place of the most visited sites by tourists in Bali after the Ubud Arts Village.
Tanah Lot, a tiny isle almost separated from mainland Bali, hosts an ancient Hundu shrine built during the sixteenth century which has become a famous tourist destination in Indonesia's tourist resort province of Bali.
In East Java in the meantime, around 25,000 people from every corner of East Java flocked to the Zoo in Surabaya (KBS).
"At least 8,000 people thronged the zoo on the first day of Idul Fitri on Wednesday, and according to our experience in past years the number of visitors will be even bigger on the second day. Therefore, we predict that more than 25,000 people will come to the zoo on the second day, today," KBS management spokesman Agus Supangkat said on Thursday.
He said the number of visitors since the first day of Idul Fitri until ten days after the holiday was predicted to reach 164,000 people or rise by about 10 percent from the figure last year.
"Our prediction of the rise in number is based on fact that the number of visitors this year is much bigger than that in the past years," he said, adding that on Sundays 10,000 people in average came to the zoo.
According to Agus Supangkat, the Zoo in Surabaya is the biggest in Indonesia and in Asia with no less that 3.500 animals from 400 species of mammals, birds and reptiles.
The zoo was formally opened on August 31, 1916 when a group of animal lovers came together and decided to open a zoological garden on an area of approximately 16 ha downtown.
Later it was moved to the present site uptown. The Surabaya Zoo's collection of animals includes species from Indonesia as well as from many parts of the world such as Africa, Europe, and South America.
Agus said the zoo also had an aquarium and a hall with stuffed animals.
Jakarta, Oct 3 9ANTARA) - Entering the second day of Lebaran, the period of post-fasting month festivities, on Thursday, hundreds of thousands of Indonesian holiday makers thronged popular recreation centers such the Jaya Ancol Dream Land and Ragunan Zoo in Jakarta, Tanah Lot in Bali and the Surabaya Zoo in East Java.
In Jakarta, tens of thousands of holiday makers poured into Jaya Ancol Dream Land recreation center in North Jakarta. About 100,000 visitors packed the recreation center, exceeding the number of visitors which reached 80,000 in the previous day on Wednesday.
Most holiday makers spent time sitting on the beach, while others went swimming. Almost all open spaces in the dream land complex were packed with visitors.
The alley which connects the beach with other tourist sites in the dream land was also full of local tourists.
Other spaces were used by visitors to sit down on mats they hired from leasers. Some others hired lifebuoys for swimming.
Not far from the beach, music groups performed to entertain visitors. The groups appeared in turns to present songs that were not alien to visitors' ears. One of the favorite sites within the Ancol Dream Land which was thronged by visitors was Pantai Indah.
Tens of thousands of visitors were scattered in various tourist objects and sites in the dream land.
Another favorite site was the Fantasy World (Dufan). It was packed with visitors since morning. They lined up in queues to purchase tickets at the windows of the Dufan ticket sales counter.
Other recreation centers in Jakarta were also visited by record numbers of local tourists.
The Ragunan Zoon in South Jakarta was packed with about 100,000 visitors. They came from Jakarta's satellite towns of Tangerang, Bekasi and Bogor.
The zoo management's spokesman, Marzuki, said the number of visitors to Ragunan Zoo was predicted to be even more than Thursday's on Saturday and Sunday or the fourth and fifth days after Lebaran.
"The number of visitors today or the second day of Lebaran is estimated to be more than 100,000 because on the second day of Lebaran last year the number reached 146,000," Marzuki said.
He said the zoo, situated in the suburb of Ragunan in the southern part of the city, was a popular place to visit, particularly during holidays.
Laid out in a lush tropical setting, such indigenous animals as the Komodo lizard, tapir, anoa, Java tiger, banteng (bull), wild ox and brightly colored birds are given ample spaces in a green environemnt.
Marzuki said the new primates were centered at Ragunan Zoo, a world-class facility designed to both entertain and educate young and old people alike.
Outside Java Island, holiday makers also flocked to recreation centers in Bali, Indonesia's best known tourist resort province.
Thousands of domestic tourists visited Tanah Lot ,for example.
The number of foreign, domestic and local tourists visiting the tourist resort of Tanah Lot in Bali's Tabanan district during the current Idul Fitri holidays had increased four-fold.
"The increase in the number of visitors has taken place since two days before the Idul Fitri holidays began on Wednesday," I Made Sujana R.Par, head of the operations section of the Tanah Lot Tourist Resort Operator, said.
"On other days, the number of visitors is recorded at an average of 3,000. It jumps up to 12,000 tourists over the past few days," he said.
The post-fasting month holidays, locally called 'lebaran' this year started on Monday and will end on Sunday this week.
The increase of holidaymakers in Tanah Lot has begun to be felt two days before the Lebaran D-Day on Wednesday, he said.
Sujana said that the dominant visitors were domestic tourists who came from various provinces in Indonesia, followed by foreign tourists and local visitors.
He said he had to provide an extra parking lot of about two hectares to accommodate the vehicles of tourists who came with their private cars.
Tanah Lot only has a parking lot of 1.5 hectare with a capacity of accommodating 400 cars. But an extra parking lot had been prepared two days before the D-Day on Wednesday.
Due to its attractiveness, Tanah Lost is able to place itself in the second place of the most visited sites by tourists in Bali after the Ubud Arts Village.
Tanah Lot, a tiny isle almost separated from mainland Bali, hosts an ancient Hundu shrine built during the sixteenth century which has become a famous tourist destination in Indonesia's tourist resort province of Bali.
In East Java in the meantime, around 25,000 people from every corner of East Java flocked to the Zoo in Surabaya (KBS).
"At least 8,000 people thronged the zoo on the first day of Idul Fitri on Wednesday, and according to our experience in past years the number of visitors will be even bigger on the second day. Therefore, we predict that more than 25,000 people will come to the zoo on the second day, today," KBS management spokesman Agus Supangkat said on Thursday.
He said the number of visitors since the first day of Idul Fitri until ten days after the holiday was predicted to reach 164,000 people or rise by about 10 percent from the figure last year.
"Our prediction of the rise in number is based on fact that the number of visitors this year is much bigger than that in the past years," he said, adding that on Sundays 10,000 people in average came to the zoo.
According to Agus Supangkat, the Zoo in Surabaya is the biggest in Indonesia and in Asia with no less that 3.500 animals from 400 species of mammals, birds and reptiles.
The zoo was formally opened on August 31, 1916 when a group of animal lovers came together and decided to open a zoological garden on an area of approximately 16 ha downtown.
Later it was moved to the present site uptown. The Surabaya Zoo's collection of animals includes species from Indonesia as well as from many parts of the world such as Africa, Europe, and South America.
Agus said the zoo also had an aquarium and a hall with stuffed animals.
