Foreign visitors to Indonesia in March were up 15.4% from the previous month, according to data from the statistics bureau released on Tuesday. This marks the most substantial annual basis for March in the past four years.
In March, Indonesia recorded a total of 809,960 tourist arrivals, a significant increase from the previous month’s 701,930 visitors.
However, Margo Yuwono, the head of Statistics Indonesia, said “The tourist arrivals keep increasing but are yet to return to pre-pandemic level”.
The top three countries that contributed the most visitors to Indonesia in March were Malaysia, Singapore, and Australia. These countries also remained unchanged from the previous month.
In March 2019, Indonesia received 1.31 million visitors. During the first quarter of this year, Indonesia received 2.25 million visitors, compared to 5.5 million arrivals for the whole of 2022.
