Foreign tourists look on at the beach from behind a barrier with a closure notice amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, in Kuta near Denpasar on Indonesia's resort island of Bali on May 29, 2020. - AFP
JAKARTA: Indonesia’s foreign tourist arrivals in April tumbled 87.4% from a year earlier to around 160,000, due to travel curbs imposed to contain the spread of the coronavirus, data from the statistics bureau showed yesterday.
More than 90% of the tourists came from neighbouring East Timor and Malaysia.
Indonesia saw 1.3 million incoming foreign tourists in April of 2019. — Reuters
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