JAKARTA - Statistics Indonesia (BPS) reported on Aug. 6 that Indonesia recorded 630.41 million domestic tourist trips in the first half of 2026, up 2.71% from a year earlier.
The January-June total was 16.63 million trips above the 613.78 million recorded in the same period of 2025. The pace of growth was slower than a year earlier: BPS reported that first-half domestic trips in 2025 had increased 17.70% from the corresponding 2024 period.
Monthly figures show sizeable swings in domestic travel during 2026. Trips reached 126.34 million in March, up 42.10% year-on-year, according to the BPS March tourism release. They then fell to 97.55 million in April, down 24.14%, according to BPS April figures, before rising to 106.16 million in May, 8.69% above May 2025, according to BPS May figures.
BPS reports domestic tourism as trips made by Indonesian residents within the country rather than a headcount of individual travellers. Its annual Domestic Tourism Statistics publication uses Mobile Positioning Data and a nationwide digital survey to profile travel purposes, accommodation, trip duration and average spending.
The first-half figure was reported as the government said it was focusing on boosting investment and tourism-industry performance in the third quarter. Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto highlighted Bali, West Nusa Tenggara and East Nusa Tenggara as important drivers of domestic and international tourism in an Aug. 6 report.
“We will continue to push investment in the coming quarter. At the same time, we are intensifying efforts to strengthen tourism-related industries,” Hartarto said in Jakarta.
He also pointed to improving regional air connectivity, including a newly launched direct Bali-Phuket service operated by TransNusa, as an opportunity to attract more international visitors.
Indonesia recorded about 1.2 billion domestic tourist trips in all of 2025, according to a government tourism assessment. The 630.41 million first-half total is equivalent to roughly 53% of that rounded annual figure. Year-on-year growth of 2.71% in the first half of 2026 was also well below the 17.70% increase recorded for the same period a year earlier.
