Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Coordinating Minister Rizal Ramli said he rejected the proposal visa-free visit for Israel.

"There is a visa-free Israel proposed, we reject," he said via his official Twitter accountRamliRizal Monday night.

Nudge it delivered Rizal to answer questions one follower who questioned his account in a number of media reports on the granting of visa-free visits to Israel.

Nudge it also became classifications Rizal on previous reports that stated Israel became one of the recipient countries visa-free facility visits.

Earlier, the government increased the visa-free visits to 84 countries are planned with effect from this week.

Among the 84 countries include Australia, Brazil, Ukraine, Kenya, Uzbekistan, Bangladesh, Cameroon, Palestine, Honduras, Pakistan, Mongolia. Sierra Leone, Uruguay, Bosnia Herzegovina, Costa Rica, Albania, Mozambique, Macedonia, El Salvador, Zambia, Moldova, Madagascar, Georgia, Namibia, Kiribati, Armenia, Bolivia, Bhutan, Guatemala, Mauritania and Paraguay.

Rizal hope, granting visa-free visit to Indonesia that could encourage foreign tourists to visit the country, which targeted 20 million people in 2019 to come.

The reason, of granting visa-free facilities given visit last October to 47 countries has encouraged the growth of tourist visits of up to 19 percent, much higher than normal growth in the range of 6 percent to 8 percent.

reporting by Ade Irma Junida

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