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VP moots using women in Arab tourism push 




His apologists may point to Vice President Jusuf Kalla's business mind-set that 
has taught him to approach the issues from a clinical gains-vs-losses 
perspective.

Perhaps it could explain his otherwise offensive suggestion Wednesday that 
tourism campaigns for the Middle East should highlight the availability of 
attractive women. 

"The marketing needs a better campaign based on the visitor's appetite and 
segment," he said at a seminar on tourism promotion to the Middle East. 

"If there are a lot of Middle East tourists traveling to Puncak to seek janda, 
I think that it's OK," he added, referring to the West Java mountain resort and 
using the Indonesian term denoting either widows or divorcees. 

He said the tourists would bring numerous benefits to the women and their 
offspring, as well as the country's entertainment community. 

"If the janda get modest homes even if the tourists later leave them, then it's 
OK. The children resulting from these relationships will have good genes. There 
will be more television actors and actresses from these pretty boys and girls," 
he said. 

Kalla was referring to a common practice in some areas of West Java and Batam 
island, where local women engage in short-term relationships with foreigners, 
many of them businesspeople from the Middle East, after taking informal 
religious vows. 

Although proponents say the arrangement avoids illicit sexual relations and 
provides income to poor families, women's rights activists contend it is a form 
of legalized prostitution, especially when minors are forced into the unions by 
their parents. 

The Vice President said the focus of Middle Eastern tourism campaigns should 
not stereotype Arabs as devoutly religious people who would only spend their 
days at the mosque. 

After providing a visa-on-arrival facility for several countries in the Middle 
East, the government expects to attract 300,000 visitors from the wealthy 
region this year, up from around 40,000 last year. 

Middle Eastern tourists, feeling unwelcome in Europe and the United States 
after 9/11, are flocking to Southeast Asia, particularly Thailand and Malaysia. 
Thailand had almost 290,000 Middle Eastern tourists in 2004, a 42 percent jump 
from the previous year. Malaysia attracted almost 150,000 last year. -- JP 


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