Taiwan to open tourism office in Indonesia to beckon visitors, strengthen ties
Taiwan plans to open a tourism office in Indonesia next year as it looks to capture a greater portion of one of the world’s fastest-growing outbound travel markets.
More than 200,000 Indonesians visit Taiwan each year. Taiwan is looking to ramp up those figures by establishing an on-the-ground presence in Jakarta in 2026.
Lin Hsin-jen, Taiwan's deputy representative in Indonesia, described the Southeast Asian country as a market Taiwan can no longer afford to overlook, noting that the country of 280 million is not only "the world's largest Muslim tourism market," but also one of the region's most reliably growing economies.
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