In 2015, the number of Chinese foreign tourists reached 1.25 million, an 18.7 percent increase from the previous year's 1 million. The rise in Chinese disposable income, in line with the country's economic growth, has led to an increased demand for vacations, including destinations in Indonesia.
The implementation of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) at the beginning of 2016 sparked news of millions of Chinese foreign workers flooding into Indonesia under the guise of tourism. Data from the Central Bureau of Statistics shows that the number of Chinese foreign tourists in 2015 only reached 1.2 million, or approximately 12 percent of the total 10.23 million foreign tourists. According to the list of foreign worker employment permits from the Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration, the number of Chinese foreign workers is only around 21,000.
Between 2000 and 2015, the number of foreign tourists from China showed an average annual growth of 39.2 percent. In 2000, the number of Chinese tourists was only 16,000, but by 2015 it had reached 1.2 million.
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