Jakarta, Feb. 12 -- The Ministry of Villages and Development of Disadvantaged Regions is collaborating with the Ministry of Tourism to accelerate the strengthening of tourist villages throughout Indonesia.

"We'll work on this together. This concept must be easily implemented by villages, despite their limitations," said Deputy Village Minister Ahmad Riza Patria during a meeting with Deputy Tourism Minister Ni Luh Puspa, here on Thursday.

"We've created written and visual guidelines to make them easy to understand, including a budget plan to help the village community navigate the process. We'll then find the funding," he added.

Patria explained that the concept and syllabus related to this matter would be developed using a map of each ...