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An Award from ASEANTA

In the middle of terrorism and tsunami reports which caused tourism zest to drop, the pleasant news is about Agung Prana’s success in receiving an award from ASEAN Tourism Association (ASEANTA) 2005.

This prestigious award received by Agung Prana, leader of the Nature Foundation of Terumbu Karang Northern Bali, for his success in preserving coral fish in Pemuteran. The award was recently handed out by the Deputy Minister of Malaysia, Dato’ Sri Hj. Mohd. Najib, at the opening event of ASEAN Tourism Forum, in Lankawi, Malasya.
“We are very pleased with the project of nature preservation at Pemuteran, Northern Bali, we feel that this is properly suitable, considering this project is certainly valuable for today’s life, and our next generation,” said Agung Prana at a press conference at Prana Spa & Villas Kuta, last week.
According to him, as well as the category of nature preservation efforts, there are also the award categories of Best Tourism Article, Best Tourism Poster, Best Tourism Packet, Marketing and Promotion Champaign, Flight Program, Newest Tourist Destination and Cultural Preservation Effort. Especially for nature preservation effort, it was assessed based on ecology heritage for enthusiastic increases on tourism.
Karang Lestari Pemuteran – Northern Bali is a project group of coral repairing which is using electricity in improving the coral’s growth and prevention of disturbing the living environment. It also can fix sea-coral habitats and its natural beautification. This method is able to increase the fishing industry in sustaining the water tourism and economic growth.
Formerly, Karang Lestari also gained the Sea Tourism Award 2002 from Skal for the Best Sea Tourism Project in the World award for public coastal area arrangement based on KONAS Indonesia and the most prestigious living environment award in Indonesia, Kalpataru/Adipura. Whilst Agung Prana, who is also the founder and project leader of nature preservation, always officiated as the leader of the Indonesian Travel Biro Bali Branch and as the nominator of Sasakawa Living Environment award from the United Nations (UN), last year. (BTN/015)