Indonesian Tourism Fiascos

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Frisco Dude says: "…Monday, December 31, 2007 Indonesia Tourism Promotion Fiascos One ad carried an emotive message showing a picture of the earthquake-damaged Central Javanese Hindu temple of Prambanan, proclaiming a national commitment to ‘someday’ rebuild the monument, no matter how many years it takes. That message prompted one foreign travel agent to quip: ‘Give me a call when you are once again open for business.’

“Another full page advert in the Australian edition of Time Magazine tried to persuade surfers to come to Indonesia, saying surfers will encounter ‘the same wave everywhere,’ cryptically tossing in the grammatically suspect non sequitur, ‘all the islands that have coastlines facing in those directions(sic) get waves…’”