(27 May 2007) SHOTLIST
1. Wide Borobudur temple in Yogyakarta
2. Various of tourists climbing up temple steps
3. Tourists touching Buddhist statue in temple
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Katrien Gillis, Belgium Tourist,
"It is very beautiful. There are some temples that are closed because of the earthquake, but in general they are very nicely restored. And I can hardly see anything that there was an earthquake."
5. Various of tourists taking pictures of temple
6. Mid shot of Buddhist statue
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Linda Wubben, Dutch Tourist, Vox pop:
"I am not afraid because I think there are a lot of earthquakes in Indonesia, and it can happen everywhere. I like Yogyakarta. I think it's the best city in Java and Borobudur is really nice."
8.Various of tourists at temple
9. SOUNDBITE: (Indonesian) Pujo Suwarno, Borobudur's Staff Manager:
"The temple is perfectly safe for tourists. However immediately after the earthquake, we did experience a decline of the numbers of tourists coming to Borobudur."
10. Wide of tourists at temple
11. Wide of Borobudur temple
STORYLINE
Tourists are slowly returning to the world famous Borobudur Buddhist temple, one of Indonesia's most popular tourist attractions, a year after a powerful earthquake struck Central Java, killing thousands.
The famed 7th century temple was not affected in the earthquake - unlike the Prambanan temple complex which lay in ruins following the disaster.
"The temple is perfectly safe for tourists. However immediately after the earthquake, we did experience a decline of the numbers of tourists coming to Borobudur," Pujo Suwarno, Borobudur's staff manager told AP Television.
Borobudur, the world's largest Buddhist temple, was built on a vast open area, 60 kilometres (36 miles) north of the ancient city of Yogyakarta.
The temple is the region's most famous monument and used to attract a steady stream of foreign and domestic tourists every year.
That is until a magnitude-6.2 earthquake struck the area near Yogyakarta, on 27 May 2007, killing more than 5-thousand people and injuring thousands more.
It was Indonesia's worst disaster since the 2004 tsunami which killed more than 131-thousand people.
Following the earthquake the number of tourists to Borobudur dwindled rapidly - despite reports that that temple was completely unaffected by the earthquake.
The Indonesian government responded by launching a massive promotional campaign to attract tourists from inside and outside the country to the temple.
The strategy is proving effective as tourists are once again flocking to Borobudur.
"I am not afraid because I think there are a lot of earthquakes in Indonesia, and it can happen everywhere. I like Yogyakarta. I think it's the best city in Java and Borobudur is really nice," said Linda Wubben, a Dutch tourist on a visit to the temple.
Indonesia, the world's largest archipelago, is prone to seismic upheaval due to its location along a string of volcanoes and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.
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