Cirebon, West Java, Jan. 28 -- The Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy has formed a special team to develop tour packages around the Kertajati Airport or West Java International Airport (BIJB) to support local people's economic growth.

"We have a special team in the ministry in cooperation with the government of West Java Province to create tour packages," Tourism and Creative Economy Minister Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno said here on Sunday.

The BIJB has a strategic location thanks to toll road access that makes it easier for passengers to reach this Indonesia's second biggest airport, he said.

With that potential, he assessed that the tourism sector around the airport must be offered to passengers through integrated tour packages.

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