Pesta Blogger by Ministry of Culture and Tourism

Are you a travel blogger? If you are, then you are in for a treat: FREE trip to Indonesia?

The Ministry of Culture and Tourism Indonesia is inviting foreign travel bloggers to Indonesia – All expense Paid!

Pesta Blogger 2008 will begin with a “Road to Pesta Blogger 2008” event on Nov 17, leading up to Nov 22, 2008. During this event, with the full support of Indonesia’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and in accordance with the program Visit Indonesia Year 2008, Pesta Blogger is planning to invite foreign travel bloggers (or other bloggers who habitually write about travel/tourism) from 5 countries to join a blogging trip— whereby these foreign bloggers will be exposed to Indonesian tourism potential, hosted by local bloggers’ community.

The blogging trip schedule is as follows:
1.Denpasar, Bali (Mon, Nov 17 – Tue, Nov 18)
2.Jogjakarta (Wed, Nov 19 – Thu, Nov 20)
3.Jakarta (Fri, Nov 21 – Sat, Nov 22)
(note from MedanKu.com: Where is the schedule for Medan? We are forgotten again)

All expenses for this trip (transportation, accomodation, F&B, etc.) will be covered by Pesta Blogger 2008 and The Ministry of Culture and Tourism. If you are a travel blogger (or a blogger who habitually writes about travel/tourism) from Singapore, Malaysia, China/HongKong, Australia, and USA and is interested to participate in this program, all you need to do is to send us an email containing your:

• full name (as written on your passport),
• country of origin,
• gender,
• age,
• phone number,
• email address,
• blog URL, and
• a short paragraph on why you’d like to participate in this blogging trip.

Don’t forget to put PB08-BLOGGING TRIP as the subject of your email.

Throughout the trip, you’ll be expected to blog about Indonesia as a travel destination and the cultural heritage of the country as well as the interaction you’ll be having with local bloggers’ communities in Denpasar, Jogjakarta, and Jakarta. The trip will end up with the Pesta Blogger event in Jakarta, on Saturday, Nov 22, 2008.

For further information please contact:
Enda Nasution. | Email: enda.nst@gmail.com | YM: enda_001 | +62 813 9487 1625

This event and support of the government of Indonesia namely the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Indonesia has shown that travel blogs and bloggers has now been recognized to play a big part in Travel and Tourism of Indonesia which will help Indonesia to promote its culture and tourism to the world as what MedanKu.com is trying to achive for Medan.

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