Bintan Tourism Slows Down Due to Covid-19, DPRD Plans a Coordination Meeting with Disbudpar Bintan

TRIBUNBATAM.id, BINTAN - The corona virus outbreak (covid-19) that struck Wuhan, China has made a number of tourism sector in Bintan District, Riau Islands province increasingly paralyzed.

Corona virus outbreaks have a negative impact on foreign tourist visits to the Bintan area. As a result, a number of tourism businesses have complained about this.

In fact, some of them have laid off employees to reduce the company's operational burden at this time.

Not to mention, the company must deposit several tax items to the local government. 

Responding to a number of problems with the Bintan tourism sector at this time, Deputy Chairman of the Commission II of the Bintan Legislative Council (DPRD), Indra Setiawan said, in the near future the commission will arrange a work meeting (Raker) with the Culture and Tourism Department (Disbudpar) of Bintan. 

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Meanwhile, when alluded to about the discourse of reducing the tax burden for businesses until the corona virus's impact subsided, Indra did not have the courage to answer it. 

According to Indra, his party will provide relief to tourism businesses. However, it must be ensured not to have too much impact on the Local Revenue. 

"After we do the evaluation and not have an impact on our Local Revenue, we will submit it to the Regency Government. The important thing is that we always support business actors while not overly burdening our Local Revenue," he said.  

Asked about the decline in Local Revenue due to the corona virus (covid-19), Indra said, he could not be sure. 

So far, the corona virus outbreak is still hitting the tourism sector in Bintan Regency. In fact, some targets, such as the target of foreign tourists visiting, are predicted to miss Local Revenue targets. (*Alfandi Simamora/Tribunbatam.id)  

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