April tourist arrivals down 0.4%

Tourists surfing on Kuta Beach in Denpasar, on Indonesia resort island of Bali. — AFP

JAKARTA: Foreign arrivals to Indonesia in April were down 0.39% compared with the previous month due to slow demand during the Islamic fasting period, according to data from the statistics bureau.

The South-East Asian country recorded 865,810 tourist arrivals in April versus a revised number in March of 869,243, data showed.