Bsuccess.org :Jakarta - The Australian government along with its people have, for the past few days campaigning in an attempt to boycott Bali. This is a symbol of their discontentment and disapproval of the Indonesian plan to execute two Bali Nine ringleaders originating from Australia. They hope, in doing so, the number of tourists from Australia will be greatly reduced.
They are also hoping that this action would affect the decision of President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo so that he takes into account the reconsideration of such policy.
This boycott campaign apparently went successful, with a number of travel agents informing the decreasing number of potential tourist coming into Indonesia.
As quoted from 9news.com.au on Friday (20/02/2015), the social media campaign with the hash tag #boycottbali has been dominating the virtual world. This endeavour was done to deliberately encourage Australians to reconsider their plan to visit Bali.
The campaign was done shortly after the Australian Minister of Foreign Relations, Julie Bishop announced her decision to perform boycott on Bali.
In the midst of the conflict, a large number of Australians seen to be even more discontented knowing that a domestic airline called Jetstar lowered their tariffs for the flights to Bali. They think this is not supporting the boycott campaign as lowered price would inevitably attract buyers.
However, Jetstar admits that the lowered price is adjusted to the already lowered price of Jetstar to Bali from all areas in South East Asia.
A large number of Australians who dislike Jokowi’s decision now views Indonesia as racist and arrogant. This is of course paradoxical to what actually happen.
Indonesia has also previously executed its own citizen for being a courier for drugs. So, the word 'racist' is not particularly relevant in this circumstance. As for arrogance, Indonesia can immediately counter-argue with the fact that Prime Minister Tony Abbott showed how Australia was not sincere when it sent financial aid to Indonesia back in 2004.
"This is not like a natural disaster or such that involves a terrorist attack. But of course may Australians cancelled their tickets due to this boycott," the CEO of Australian Federation of Travel Agents, Jayson Westbury said.
According to Jayson, the impact of this boycott will be felt for the next seven or eight months. Meanwhile, other aviation experts say that the impact would only be momentary that the reduction of interested ticket buyer will be only for a short period of time.
This is primarily because the trading relationship between the two countries is too strong to be intervened with what is hype on social media.
An economist, Tim Harcourt said that Indonesia is committed to the laws and that many of its people suffer from the severe capital punishment. That is why, Indonesia is not afraid to do the same to foreigners
They are also hoping that this action would affect the decision of President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo so that he takes into account the reconsideration of such policy.
This boycott campaign apparently went successful, with a number of travel agents informing the decreasing number of potential tourist coming into Indonesia.
The campaign was done shortly after the Australian Minister of Foreign Relations, Julie Bishop announced her decision to perform boycott on Bali.
In the midst of the conflict, a large number of Australians seen to be even more discontented knowing that a domestic airline called Jetstar lowered their tariffs for the flights to Bali. They think this is not supporting the boycott campaign as lowered price would inevitably attract buyers.
However, Jetstar admits that the lowered price is adjusted to the already lowered price of Jetstar to Bali from all areas in South East Asia.
A large number of Australians who dislike Jokowi’s decision now views Indonesia as racist and arrogant. This is of course paradoxical to what actually happen.
Indonesia has also previously executed its own citizen for being a courier for drugs. So, the word 'racist' is not particularly relevant in this circumstance. As for arrogance, Indonesia can immediately counter-argue with the fact that Prime Minister Tony Abbott showed how Australia was not sincere when it sent financial aid to Indonesia back in 2004.
"This is not like a natural disaster or such that involves a terrorist attack. But of course may Australians cancelled their tickets due to this boycott," the CEO of Australian Federation of Travel Agents, Jayson Westbury said.
According to Jayson, the impact of this boycott will be felt for the next seven or eight months. Meanwhile, other aviation experts say that the impact would only be momentary that the reduction of interested ticket buyer will be only for a short period of time.
This is primarily because the trading relationship between the two countries is too strong to be intervened with what is hype on social media.
An economist, Tim Harcourt said that Indonesia is committed to the laws and that many of its people suffer from the severe capital punishment. That is why, Indonesia is not afraid to do the same to foreigners
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