Indonesia's regions await UNESCO geopark review
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Indonesia's Culture and Tourism Ministry has submitted a proposal to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to create geoparks in Batur Lake in Bali and Pacitan, East Java, local media reported in Jakarta on Monday.
"Batur and Pacitan were submitted to UNESCO in September 2010. We're asking for people's support and prayers so that (UNESCO) will approve them (as geoparks)," the ministry's director for tourism products, Acyaruddin, said recently.
He said the spots would be the first UNESCO-approved geoparks in Indonesia. Acyaruddin added that if documentation for the proposal was in order, a UNESCO team would survey the locations in June or July, the Jakarta Post reported.
UNESCO would then announce its decision in September, he added.
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