Abstract
The plan to ratify the new Criminal Code in Indonesia is responded by Australia through issuing a travel advice policy in 2019. There has a concern that this policy will have an impact on the tourism sector in Indonesia, especially Bali, because the Australian tourists are recorded as dominating the visits. By using the concept of travel advice and foreign policy, this study aimed to analyze the travel advice policy issued by Australia from the perspective of International Relations and its impact on the tourism in Bali. This study used qualitative descriptive method and the primary data collection was done through interviews with the hoteliers in Bali and Australian tourists visiting Bali. From the perspective of International Relations, it is found that Australia’s travel advice is a foreign policy that has a purpose based on Australia’s national interests. This policy has no impact on Australian tourist visits because it is not a binding policy. The Australian tourists' have their own opinion about Bali and the decisions to visit affected by the clarity information from targeted state or destination.
Highlights
In 2019 Indonesia planned to revise the Criminal Code inherited from the Dutch colonial period
This study only examined the Australia’s travel advice policy regarding the Criminal Code revision and its impact on Bali tourism after the travel advice issuance, during September 2019-December 2019
Regarding the Australia’s response, it can be said that the revision of the Criminal Code draft affected the foreign policy of the Australian Government through the updated travel advice, even though Australia did not increase the level of travel advice and remained at level 2
Summary
In 2019 Indonesia planned to revise the Criminal Code inherited from the Dutch colonial period. The plan to ratify the Criminal Code revision draft has drawn various reactions from the public. This rejection is because several articles in the Criminal Code draft, namely Article 417 paragraph 1 and Article 419 paragraph 1 are considered far from a sense of justice and intervene on the private aspects. Hlm. 43—60 batch of student protests ran over September 23-24. The biggest of the ongoing demonstrations was held on the final day of the outgoing parliamentary term on September 30 (Puspa, 2019). The demonstrations have been among the biggest anti-government rallies since 1998 when protests brought down the Suharto dictatorship (BBC News, 2019).
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