Foreign tourists who visit tourist attractions in Indonesia , Borobudur capital , has often frustrating experience because of meeting the locals selling trinkets by way of force .
It happened because people did not feel the attraction about the positive economic impact , said Head of Culture Unit of UNESCO Office in Jakarta Masanori Nagaoka international seminar Indonesia Creative Products Week , 2013, Saturday.
" Tourists do not visit the area around Borobudur much so that the local community is not much economic benefit , " he said .
Data from UNESCO last year , there were three million tourists a year visit Borobudur . However , 80 percent of them do not know anything about the area around Borobudur .
Because most visitors Borobudur is just stop for a moment . Most spend time in a short period of time , one to three hours . Afterwards , they went to the area of Yogyakarta usual . Only two per cent who chose to place down around Borobudur .
He explains , cultural and natural richness around Borobudur should be dealt with so that the local community well -being.
" 45 percent of the population earn Rp 500,000 - about - Rp1 million per month , even 33 percent earning less than Rp 500,000 per month , " he said .
If it is allowed , there is the possibility of the future became bleak Borobudur tourism .
" Because there will be a repeating cycle , people treat tourists with such an unpleasant way of forced selling , if it turns out the goods purchased are not qualified , tourists will be negative and Borobudur reputation declined , led again on the reduced income of the people , " he explained .
Development projects that can be done such as developing existing industrial ceramics , processing of fruits into a wealth of other products such as jam , as well as create a gallery containing local products in Karanganyar which can be reached by a carriage or bicycle transport
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