 Cisarua also attracts many tourists from the Middle East, many coming from Saudi Arabia, with reasons of coming similar to the ones with the asylum seekers.Because of the number of Arab migrants and tourists, the district is often called as the "Kampung Arab".Back at the Dutch colonial era, the area is called "Tjisaroea", and between 1945–1949 Indonesian National Revolution the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army (KNIL) maintained a prison camp for soldiers convicted of breaches of military discipline.