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Figure 2. Number of Additional Tourism in Border Areas Jan-July 2018

Figure 2. Shows a total number of additional tourism in border area January
to July 2018. The biggest additional number is 509 295 tourists in Belu regency,
Nusa Tenggara Timur and the smallest is 576 in Pegunungan Bintan, Papua.
Number of additional tourism in border area prove that use the MPD capture
significantly and increase the coverage of inbound tourism in Indonesia.

4. Discussion and Conclusion
MPD is useful for BPS Statistics Indonesia as it gives more accurate data
on the tourism arrival figures compared to cross-border survey, which can only
be conducted during one month and in limited geographical area to estimate
the whole year and the entire border. However, there also limitations to MPD.
So, there is no data source that is superior compared to other data source. All
of data sources could complete each other.
It is important to design a mobile usage survey to accompany the MPD.
Moreover, from the cross-validation results, both MPD and survey had their
limitations and weaknesses which were apparent once both data sources were
compared and used together.
Survey can only be conducted once or twice a year, while MPD is obtained
every month with quite high accuracy. After MPD is used, the proportion of
cross-border tourism for Indonesia now exceeds 30 percent, which aligns to
international benchmarks.
The use of mobile positioning data changes the process of design, build,
data collection, data processing, and dissemination. It also changes the
process of data collection so that it can enhance the cost efficiency and time
efficiency Real time dissemination also can be achieved by using mobile
positioning data. Big data as a part of data revolution needs to be developed,

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