Seven Indonesian museums launch museum visit package

Seven museums in Jakarta, Bandung, Surakarta and Surabaya jointly launched a museum visit package on Thursday.

The seven museums are the National Museum of Jakarta, the Bank Mandiri Museum of Jakarta, the Museum of History of Jakarta, the Batik Danar Hadi Museum of Surakarta, the Museum of Geology of Bandung, the Sepuluh November Museum of Surabaya and the Museum of Sampoerna of Surabaya (House of Sampoerna).

"The program is aimed to support the Visit Indonesia Year 2008 launched by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism," Manager House of Sampoerna Ina Salis in the launching held in the National Museum of Jakarta on Thursday.

She added the cooperation was also an effort to preserve the national history and create the tradition of love of museum.

She said for the first phase, the program would be focused on the promotion to the network of each museum.

"We will cooperate with the Association of the Travel Bureaus (ASITA), the Association of Hotel Restaurants as well as the association of museum to help promote and design a follow up program sought by each of the museum," she said.