The polemic on the price of Borobudur Temple tickets is still ongoing. Now the public are pro and some are con.
According to the government, this policy is intended as a conservation measure for Borobudur Temple. Even so, this policy still invites reactions from Indonesian netizens on Twitter's timeline.
As we monitored, Monday (6/6/2022) Borobudur continues to be a trending topic on Twitter. Now there are 31,500 tweets about Borobudur.
There is a difference in the narrative with Sunday (5/6). Initially there were more protests, but today there are also many narratives of support from Indonesian netizens.
Many netizens think that Borobudur is already mostly tourists, as a result it can interfere with the preservation of the temple. Many netizens also posted about the behavior of Borobudur temple visitors who climbed the stupa and violated other rules.
While the cons said the price was too expensive. They said there should be another way instead of increasing ticket prices.
Here are the Indonesian netizens' tweets on Twitter from the pros and cons:
Borobudur temple entrance tickets are cheap if local tourists behave like this: pic.twitter.com/iDRSV8PnRn
— People Tweet (@PeopleNgetweet) June 5, 2022
"The price of the ticket goes up to Borobudur temple by 750K. At first I thought, it's crazy expensive. When I found out the reason, hmm, yes," said @badsweetg***.
"Considering that Borobudur is very old, so it needs to be maintained and preserved. The ticket has been deliberately increased so that the number of visitors is reduced," @mjpty58.
"There are many ways to limit visitors from going up to the Borobudur temple by registering online with strict conditions, one of which is not increasing the boss's ticket," said @wasqtoa***
"A mercenary brain, yes. If you really want to conserve/preserve Borobudur, the solution is not to increase the price. But, build a complete MUSEUM with replicas, history, etc., which is open to the public. The temple area can only be entered for the benefit of Buddhist worship, education , & research," critique @_mas***.
As is known, the government plans to increase the ticket price for Borobudur Temple to IDR 750 thousand per person for local tourists just to climb Borobudur Temple. Meanwhile, the entrance ticket to the Borobudur Temple area is still IDR 50 thousand per person for local tourists.
The reason for setting the ticket price is because there is a quota system per day for those who are allowed to go up to the Borobudur Temple. The government has set a quota of 1,200 people per day for those who are allowed to climb the temple for conservation purposes.