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Foreign tourist visiting Indonesia keep increasing, we can see in 2014 the increase

occurs at 7,2%[1]. Since Indonesia has 47 countries visa free in September 2015, growth of
tourists visiting Indonesia reached 19%. This increasing tourist is not just because Indonesia
can visit easily, but also offers natural richness, historical and cultural diversity that can be
tourism attraction at each town in Indonesia. Indonesia has many cultural, so we need to
introduce Indonesia heritage to avoid cultural steal like Reog Ponorogo which claimed as
Malaysias. We offer a Walking Tour which guided by local communities in each town in
Indonesia to enjoying the heritages with high credibility of local wisdom. With local guides from
that walking tour location, authors expect it can balancing distribution population, that
centralized in Jakarta. Based on BPS in 2010, Jakarta is one of the province with the highest
number of inward migration in Indonesia, which amounted to 4.077.515 inhabitants[2]. This
program expected to make Indonesia as a country that competent to compete on the ASEAN
Economic Community, because in addition to the income for Indonesia, this program also create
new jobs in areas of origin as well as the resilience of Indonesia in protecting heritage.
Keywords: Walking Tour, Heritage, Balance Distribution of Population, ASEAN
Economic Community
References:
[1] World Tourism Organization. (2015). UNWTO Tourism Highlights 2015 Edition. [Online]
Available: http://www.e-unwto.org/doi/pdf/10.18111/9789284416899
[2] Badan Pusat Statistik. (2012). Migrasi Masuk Seumur Hidup menurut Provinsi tahun 2010
dalam Statistik Migrasi Indonesia 2010. Jakarta: BPS.
[3] Ajala, OA., Aliu, IR. (2013). Tourism and Integrated Development: A Geographic
Perspective. Malaysia Journal of Society and Space, 105 114, ISSN 2180-2491.

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