• gtrcoi@programming.dev
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    5 days ago

    What do you mean limited? I took a vacation in Jakarta easily enough, and went sightseeing in the surrounding provinces.

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      5 days ago

      Limited as in tourists usually only visit Bali, not that they are forbidden from visiting anywhere else.

      Bali sees more than twice the foreign tourists, and is promoted more heavily by the government itself for foreigners.

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        4 days ago

        That’s true, Bali is by far the most popular destination in Indonesia. It makes sense what you’re saying, like Jakarta is an incredibly dirty city with some pretty visible signs of poverty and corruption. But idk if the government is that concerned with what a handful of tourists think in a country of 250 million, the journalists will still expose everything to the world anyway. That said it I wouldn’t be surprised if they heavily discourage tourists from going to this Aceh place.