Pada tulisan sebelumnya (14/11), ditunjukkan penerimaan devisa dari tulis asing yang datang ke Indonesia menunjukkan peningkatakan dari tahun ke tahun tanpa henti, tidak seperti pendapatan ekspor komoditas yang berfluktuasi seperti roller coaster. Data yang dipublikasikan oleh Bank Indonesia ini lebih rendah ketimbang yang disampaikan oleh Kementerian Pariwisata.
Di sisi lain, pengeluaran devisa yang dibelanjakan oleh pelancong Indonesia di luar negeri juga menunjukkan kecenderungan meningkat sejak 2013 dibandingkan dengan tiga tahun sebelumnya, walaupun tidak secepat devisa yang masuk.
Jika kita menelaah lebih dalam, tampak ada kecenderungan pengeluaran turis asing per kapita mengalami penurunan. Sebaliknya, pengeluaran turis Indonesia di luar negeri menunjukkan peningkatan.
Ada baiknya promosi untuk turis domestik lebih digencarkan mengingat sedemikian banyak obyek wisata di dalam negeri yang bisa dikunjungi yang tak kalah menarik ketimbang obyek wisata di luar negeri.
Faisal Basri is currently senior lecturer at the Faculty of Economics, University of Indonesia and Chief of Advisory Board of Indonesia Research & Strategic Analysis (IRSA). His area of expertise and discipline covers Economics, Political Economy, and Economic Development.
His prior engagement includes Economic Adviser to the President of Republic of Indonesia on economic affairs (2000); Head of the Department of Economics and Development Studies, Faculty of Economics at the University of Indonesia (1995-98); and Director of Institute for Economic and Social Research at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Indonesia (1993-1995), the Commissioner of the Supervisory Commission for Business Competition (2000-2006); Rector, Perbanas Business School (1999-2003).
He was the founder of the National Mandate Party where he was served in the Party as the first Secretary General and then the Deputy Chairman responsible for research and development. He quit the Party in January 2001. He has actively been involved in several NGOs, among others is The Indonesian Movement.
Faisal Basri was educated at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Indonesia where he received his BA in 1985 and graduated with an MA in economics from Vanderbilt University, USA, in 1988.
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