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Until now, Ancol Dream Park remains the most popular tourist sites in Indonesia. Not only the people of Jakarta, but also out of town residents outside even visited the Ancol dream park. Especially when the holiday season, certainly young and old, men-women of various backgrounds and social classes in droves to meet this waterfront area. Too often encountered by foreign tourists.

Ancol allure emanating from the various tourist detination owned. As the name implies, Dream Park, a number of rides at Ancol offers experience a la "dream world" next to Beach Park and the Gondola, guests generally have been familiar with Fantasy World, Ocean Dream Ocean, Atlantic Water Adventurer, Art Market, Sea World and a number of other locations has long operated. The attraction is getting stronger with the emergence of new rides like Hysteria at Fantasy World, Atlantis Water Swimming Floating in the Adventurer, to the movies and the latest rides in Ocean Dream Ocean 4D, Ancol able to package natural entertainment, agility, and modern technology very well.

In 2011, the Ancol area will be increasingly colored by the presence of new recreational units, namely the Eco Park, which construction was started February 2010. An area of 35 hectares is the newest recreation area with a base of green lifestyle, combining content eco care, eco art, eco nature, and eco energy.

Knitting Indonesia

As a community outbreak of nodes of various backgrounds, Ancol has a great opportunity to evoke the spirit of national unity. While in the region, barriers of social class, ethnicity, and other social gap was gone. All mingle in an egalitarian society, enjoy entertainment, recreation as well as sports, and relieve fatigue. This capital to strengthen homeland nationalism and pride.

Other capital, in the midst of the mainstream world tour which tend to revere the West and America, Ancol still can show the character of Indonesia and Asia. In each program activity, local wisdom into themes that are often put forward. More and more arts and cultural festivals held regularly in national Ancol.
 
Creative activities are often call it the festival senis digalakan painting, also involves an international curator. In addition to encouraging the progress of national painting, this effort at the same time attract visitors and provide experience, how a creative process appears to be worthy of respect.

Ancol has built North Art Space (NAS), an art gallery as a place for Indonesian artists to exhibit creativity. Not only that, an art school was built for teenagers who want to hone creativity. In fact, the Jakarta Art Awards competition winner 2010, which then managed to display their works at an art event in New York, USA.

History has shown, Ancol plays a major role in developing art and culture through its art market, including art performances such as Jazz music that made jazz musicians in the country was well known international stage. Java Jazz is now stems from Ancol art market. In future, major music festivals and performances such as jazz, rock, blues, etc. kroncong will be held at Ecopark Ancol.

For some artists, Ancol considered a home that gives shelter. Although a number of fixed content elements compounded with foreign cultures, alignments Ancol on local content that does not leave Indonesia distinctiveness is maintained. Intelligently, Ancol develop mixed content (mixed content), with educational approaches. Thus this is an example of art-cultural collaborations were from various parts of the world.

Numerous Challenges

However, a series of challenges must be answered. As facing the industry in general, especially the challenge still lies in the lack of support infrastructure and a strong political will to develop the national tourism industry. In fact, Ancol potential to become icons and "lift "the image of Indonesia in the international arena is so big.

In terms of area that reached 552 hectares, Ancol really difficult to surpass, even by other similar destinations in Asia. Hong Kong Disneyland are very popular with the international community, for example, the total area "only" 126 acres (less than 25% of the Ancol). Or Tokyo Disneyland Resort in Japan, the extent of only 180 hectares. Even Universal Studios area of 20 hectares in Sentosa Island, Singapore, the so-called belle tour of Southeast Asia, such as a miniature when juxtaposed with the Ancol.

Tantanan next, how to build broad public perception of strength. How to convince the public, that the national Ancol is the potential to be developed jointly and mutually beneficial. Conducting dialogue and network with various community needs major project in order to create synergy, to stimulate and channel the collective creative energy.

Ancol has involved experts from various fields, both to deal with technical issues and non-technical. Starting from the sociologists, education specialists, engineers, artists and cultural, to environmental experts to work together and dialogue to build synergies. The goal is clear, for Ancol not become just a place for entertainment, but also container development of creative ideas, which really makes this a destination worthy of bearing the national icon.

Looking ahead, the competitiveness of a nation is not only determined by the discoveries of renewable technology alone, but also of how the invention can be creatively applied and displayed, in order to have economic value, and become the backbone of the tourism industry.

Reflecting the success of a number of famous tourist areas in the world, the ability of the manager presents a very nice service to determine the image of tourist sites. The key word hospitality. Tourist areas in developed countries can always be attractive because it is based tourism community awareness. This could be built through high standards of professionalism and service, good comfort, cleanliness, regularity behavior of Indonesian society with their local knowledge to immediate discipline yourself especially in the behavior net.

Ancol is fight. For example, how the arrangement of traffic and transport area (inner transportation) continue to be improved. Ancol hope to do centralized parking to certain points in the region. That way, more optimal arrangement of parking, and visitors can better maximize the inner facility with a variety of alternative transportation such as buses, golf car (buggy car), an environmentally friendly, or bicycle, depending on preference. In the next two years, the management targets to overcome the congestion that always occurs in the area during peak seasons
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Begit was about cleanliness. Ancol always optimize the cleanliness of infrastructure ranging from utilities to the cleaners. In fact, at peak seasons like New Year's Eve, Ancol perform optimization infrastructure up to 100-150% higher than normal days, and can not be separated from the behavior of the Indonesian nation-discipline to not throw garbage at will.

Problems hygiene is vital and a prerequisite that must be met to achieve world-class destination, and it seems Ancol must work extra hard in the deal. Even so, the actual responsibility of cleanliness also belongs to visitors and the community. Awareness for recreation while helping care environment should be improved, from a very simple thing like taking out the trash in its place, of Malaysians have the same color, same belief in her religion, same language, well able to discipline themselves to neighboring tourist area on the ground there impressive comfort away from the stench and garbage strewn, in neighboring there why Indonesia can not?

Public participation will pave the way Indonesia Ancol become a recognized icon of the world. Moreover, with awareness of the huge potential stored, that opportunities for unity, nationalism and the nation and the State kecintan wide open here. A glorious hope that is not impossible to realize. [VAL]