JAKARTA, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) -- The number of foreign tourist visits to Indonesia in 2021 reached about 1.56 million, a drastic drop of 61.57 percent year on year, Statistics Indonesia (BPS) said.
The drop reflected the trend of change in the number of foreign tourists visiting the country during the COVID-19 pandemic and before it, BPS' head Margo Yuwono told a virtual press conference in Jakarta on Wednesday.
According to Yuwono, in the January-December 2021 period, 137,240 foreigners visited Indonesia by air, 415,470 by sea, and more than 1 million by land.
The majority of foreign tourists to the country during the same period came from Timor Leste with 819,490 visits, which is about 52.6 percent, followed by Malaysia with 480,720 visits, or 30.9 percent, China with 54,710 visits, or 3.5 percent, and others with 202,600 visits, accounting for 13 percent. ■