50 Percent Tourism Industry in West Jakarta Do Not Extended TDUP
Reported by Hendi Kusuma | Translated by
50 percent or 908 entertainment industry owners in West Jakarta do not extended 2014 Tourism Business Registration Certificate (TDUP). As supposed to be, the TDUP shall be extended annually. So that, West Jakarta Tourism Sub-Dept. can easily guide and evaluate the tourism in that area.
The applied sanction is only reprimanding letter and warning. There is no any binding sanction
Head Section of West Jakarta Tourism Sub-Dept, Nyoman Winastra, explained that 50 percent of 1,817 registered tourism industries do not extended the TDUP. Winastra suspected due to the absence of affirmative sanction, the majority of tourism industry owners are reluctant to extend the TDUP. “The applied sanction is only reprimanding letter and warning. There is no any binding sanction,” explained Nyoman Winastra, Thursday (5/22).
Based on West Jakarta Tourism Sub-Department data, there are 112 hotels, 363 restaurants, 247 diners, 120 bars, 6 coffee shops, 198 cafeterias, 40 bakery shops, 204 travel agencies, 42 impresarios, 32 discotheques, 17 billiards, 34 cinemas, 57 karaoke, 42 live music, 10 reflection places, 79 massage places, 139 barber shops, 13 sport centers, 5 saunas, 1 spa, 1 fishing pool, 5 nightclubs, 19 arcade game, 7 swimming pools, and 24 caterings.
2014 Jakarta Great Sale Festival Set to Begin in June“However, of the thousands of the tourism industries, which is the authority of West Jakarta Tourism Sub-Department is only the small industry category, such as restaurants, salons, and cafeteria. While the large tourism industry is the authority the Tourism Department," said Winastra.
Even though West Jakarta Tourism Sub-Department only has small authority, Winastra admitted that his party is not able to monitor all of them roundly since the human resources they have is very little. Therefore, Winastra hoped that there will be human resources increasing to maximize performance.
“Our problem is the lack of human resource in the field to perform monitoring and guiding. We hope there will be officers increasing,” he completed.
