Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, ...

, a tourist village (''desa wisata'') is a village officially designated as one that welcomes tourism. In the

Special Region of Yogyakarta The Special Region of Yogyakarta is a province-level special region of Indonesia in southern Java. It is a semi-enclave that is surrounded by on the landward side by Central Java Province to the west, north, and east, but has a long coastline ...

(which includes the

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), the concept was embraced around 2000 with dozens of villages being dubbed as tourist villages.(3 January 2004)
Sleman, home of a tourist villages
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'' According to a 2009 report in ''

'' there were 48 tourist villages listed in Yogyakarta, though only ten were actually operating as such, including: Kebonagung, Manding, Krebet, Kasongan (Bantul), Trumpon, Turgo, Ketingan, Brayut, Gamplong (Sleman), Sermo and Bobung (Gunungkidul). The designation as a "tourist village" may not mean that the village is actually developed for tourism, but that it is believed the potential for tourism exists. Nearby

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helped encourage a number of villages to be named tourist villages.

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