Promotion of Tourism to the Scattering Foreign Funds

Denpasar - Bali Governor Made Mangku Pastika rate, promotion of tourism by bringing the party out of the country around was not a day longer, but only squander money and tend to benefit the participants to the streets.

"It's the internet age, we simply promote tourism through the portal. Website provincial I have asked to be remedied as a promotional medium. No more noisy, crowded around the country," he said in Denpasar, on Sunday.

On the basis of these ideas, the Governor cut out of budget for promotion trip to various countries. It was also based on input from the embassy of Indonesia in several countries.

"The report we received, their arrival brought the campaign and the art team, so far only a handful embassy. The movie's promotional events as well as more of our citizens in the local countries. Participants tend to use for the roads," he said.

Based on these facts, the promotion of tourism with a group of arts team abroad than ineffective and inefficient, is also not achieving the target to be adding a lot of interest in the international community visiting Pula Gods.

He grew angry when there are reports of alleged corruption fund tourism promotion abroad to Rp3 billion which now began to be investigated. "It is not effective, waste of funds, there is also corruption reports. Modus double budgeting with funding from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism," he said.

Mangku Pastika admitted, budget cuts overseas promotion is also making a number of parties and gossip about her disappointment. "But no matter, for a long time to understand them too. This era of information technology. Message hotels, airline tickets online system alone," he explained.

Although a number of policies that do while not popular votes, Mangku Pastika determined to continue it for the sake of saving and saving public money to be returned for more important purposes of the desired society.

With the savings, he said, now Bali provincial government deposits could jump to reach Rp400 billion, then the cost of public health insurance in 2009 only Rp27 billion budgeted this year reached Rp127 billion.

Through the Health Insurance program or JKBM Balinese Mandara, thousands of citizens who are not able now to enjoy free health services through the health center or the nearest hospital.

"But yes it was, although well intentioned, to help the community, many of which still do not like. I'm ready for unpopular but necessary programs correctly, can help the community at large," he said.

Mangku Pastika expect hundreds of thousands of poor people in the region, at the end of his leadership of three and a half years was expected to be reduced to a maximum of 50 thousand families living just poor.

Added, the program sucking big budget, cut the allocation which was considered less important, namely, education development and improvement of public welfare.

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