The Indonesian Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy will begin publishing 
special COVID-19 updates and travel advisory notices on visiteasia.travel. 

ASEAN countries have agreed to maximize shared digital media facilities as a 
means of disseminating information related to the handling of COVID-19 and the 
promotion of tourism in ASEAN member states through one one-gateway. All 
updates on travel, tourism and measures to combat the COVID-19 pandemic from 
Indonesian Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy can soon be found at 
www.visitseasia.travel. 

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The decision was reached following a proposal by current Chair of the ATTCT, 
Malaysia, to maximize a shared website of ASEAN tourism to disseminate COVID-19 
related updates during a "Special Video Conference Meeting of the ASEAN Tourism 
Communication Team (ATCCT) on the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)" on June 4, 
2020. 

Content to be published on visiteasia.travel will include special COVID-19 
related travel content, including statistics, travel advisory notices, 
mitigation efforts, new policies and success stories from each member state in 
handling COVID-19. 

During the meeting, the Director of Inter-Institutional Relations for the 
Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy (MoTCE) and Head of the Indonesian 
Delegation, Candra Negara, said that the focus of all ASEAN Member States is to 
restore tourists trust in the cleanliness and safety of ASEAN destinations.

"The world community wants to know: how strategies to handle COVID-19 are being 
developed by AMS. What efforts have been carried out by tourism stakeholders in 
each state and ASEAN to face the new normal order of tourism," Director Candra 
said.

Speaking on the decision to adopt the "one-gateway" approach, Agustini Rahayu, 
Director of Communication Bureau for MoTCE, said, "Indonesia's handling of 
COVID-19 is guided by the Minister of Tourism's Regulation No.10 of 2019 
concerning Crisis Management. In this effort, we analyze the impact of the 
crisis, then followed by action. It includes enhancing channels of 
communication, introducing services to reassure tourists and the deployment of 
human and digital resources of the tourism and creative economies to tackle the 
crisis."

Following this approach, the Indonesian government has provided the 
covid19.go.id website, which is managed by the National Task Force as an 
official source of COVID-19 data in Indonesia. Specifically, for the tourism 
and creative economy sector, MoTCE also provides regular COVID-19 related 
updates to the pedulicovid19.kemenparekraf.go.id microsite.

In addition to the deployment of digital and communications resources, the 
Indonesian government, through the Ministry of Health, has also issued several 
health protocols for various sectors published in both paper and electronic 
format (mobile and desktop) as a Health Care Card for tourists.

The decision to join the "one-gateway" information scheme, further reaffirms 
Indonesia's role in "ASEAN's Tourism Strategic Plan 2016-2025" and the 
development of Indonesia's digital tourism strategy put forward by Vice 
Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy Angela Tanoesoedibjo during a "Special 
Meeting ASEAN Tourism Ministers" on April 29, 2020. 

SOURCE Indonesian Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy

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