REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA - Sawahlunto in West Sumatera sets itself as cultural mining tourism city. For the last 10 years, Sawahlunto had tried to change from mining town into cultural mining tourism city, Director of Market Development and Information at the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy Sadar Pakarti Budi said.
"It is a solution and innovation for the future of Sawahlunto," he said on Friday.
Sawahlunto is a mining town in West Sumatera. It was known as the prominent coal industry in Dutch colonialism. However, things had changed after 120 years. Coal resources are depleting. Even in recent years more than 10,000 people move to other cities.
"We do not want Sawahlunto to become a ghost city," the Mayor of Sawahlunto, Amran Nur, said.
An effort to enliven the city is by turning it into cultural mining tourism city. Once famous as world-class mining town, the city is hopefully attracting tourists to visit tourism object.
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