Indonesia has set a target of 16–17 million foreign tourist arrivals in 2026, focusing on experience-based tourism while aiming to surpass pre-pandemic visitor levels.
Indonesia is targeting 16-17 million foreign tourist arrivals in 2026, as the country seeks to strengthen its tourism recovery while shifting its policy focus toward experience-based travel.
The new target would allow Indonesia to exceed pre-pandemic performance, when the country recorded approximately 16 million international arrivals. The tourism sector has been in recovery mode since the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted travel in 2020. For 2025, the full-year target for foreign tourist arrivals is 15.3 million.
According to Deputy Tourism Minister Ni Luh Puspa, the government’s tourism strategy will not be driven solely by arrival numbers. Instead, policy priorities will focus on improving the quality of visitor experiences alongside enhanced safety standards.
“We are not only talking about the numbers. We want to focus on the quality of what the tourists experience when traveling in our country. Experience-based tourism is the key to our tourism development,” she said.
The deputy minister added that future policies will also place greater emphasis on quality and sustainability. Key areas of development include tourist villages, wellness tourism and marine tourism, as part of efforts to diversify tourism offerings across the archipelago.
In parallel with its international tourism goals, the government has set a domestic tourism target of 1.1 billion trips for 2026, underlining the continued importance of domestic travel to the overall tourism economy.
Official data show that Indonesia recorded 12 million foreign tourist arrivals during the first ten months of 2025. Over the same period, domestic tourists made approximately 900 million trips.
The scale of the sector’s recovery is measured against the sharp downturn experienced during the pandemic. In 2020, Indonesia received only 4.02 million international visitors, representing a year-on-year decline of 75%.
The government views experience-based tourism, combined with improved safety and sustainability standards, as central to supporting long-term growth and restoring international confidence in Indonesia as a global tourism destination.