Sabah seeks to learn from award-winning Indonesian village on community-based tourism


Bangkuai (third right) led the Sabah Tourism Board team to visit Nglanggeran Tourism Village managed by Sugeng Handoko (second left) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah is looking to learn from an Indonesian tourism village to help bring its community-based tourism sector to a new level.

State Tourism, Culture and Environment Assistant Minister Datuk Joniston Bangkuai was in Yogyakarta on the island of Java on Friday (Feb 3) to visit the award-winning Nglanggeran Tourism Village.

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