Indonesia’s halal travel, modest fashion face uncertainties as creative economy, tourism agencies re-merge
JAKARTA – Indonesia’s Creative Economy Agency (BEKRAF) has been absorbed into the ministry of tourism to form the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy under President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s second-term government announced on October 23.
This returns the ministry to its pre-2014 identity before the then first-term President Jokowi separated the Ministry of Tourism and set up statutory body BEKRAF in 2015 to focus on the creative economy.
Stakeholders tell Salaam Gateway they hope the re-merger, and the new minister Wishnutama Kusubiando, will not mean a diluted focus on modest fashion and Muslim-friendly travel at a time when Indonesia is accelerating the development of its Islamic economy.
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