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Senoa Island, Fishing Without Waiting
[9 Jul 2011 | Comments Off | 4 views]

Senoa Island is the outermost island of Indonesia, the island is located in Ranai, Natuna. Its shape resembles a pregnant woman lying on the sea,therefore, the island is often called the Island of Pregnant Women by the locals.

In Senoa Island, visitors can see sea turtles roaming freely on …

Morotai, Island From The Past
[8 Jul 2011 | Comments Off | 12 views]

Morotai Island is located at the northern end of North Halmahera District and is still part of North Maluku. It was just declared as a new district in October 2008. North Morotai directly adjacent to the Pacific Ocean, east to Halmahera sea and in the south bordering with Morotai strait.

Formerly, …

Mansinam Island, Where The Gospel Began
[7 Jul 2011 | Comments Off | 2 views]

Mansinam Island is an island covering an area of about 410.97 acres located in the Gulf Doreh, south of Manokwari, West Papua Province, Indonesia. About 154 years ago two evangelist from Germany, CW Ottow and Johann Gottlob Geissler set foot on this island. Those missionaries arrived after a long journey …

La Petite Kepa, The Getaway
[6 Jul 2011 | Comments Off | 7 views]

La Petite Kepa or ‘small Kepa’ could have two meanings. First, Kepa island is indeed a small and tiny island. Minimal population, very quiet, and filled with goats here and there. Second, La Petite Kepa is the name of a homestay with a thatched house style owned by a French …

Aketajawe-Lolobata National Park
[5 Jul 2011 | Comments Off | 4 views]

Aketajawe-Lolobata is a National Park that combines two separate core area (Aketajawe and Lolobata block area) which has a wide series of habitats and species of Halmahera and is managed in one management unit located in three districts / municipalities, namely Central Halmahera, East Halmahera, and Tidore City Islands
Aketajawe-Lolobata was …

Mountain Leuser, Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra
[19 Jun 2011 | Comments Off | 29 views]

Mountain Leuser National Park is located at Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam and North Sumatera, Indonesia. It’s perfect example of coastal forest ecosystems, and tropical lowland and mountain rain forest.

The rock types consist of volcanic rocks, limestone, sedimentary rocks, plutons, and alluvium, the terrain is dominated by a complex of brown podzolic, …

Palung Mountain National Park
[18 Jun 2011 | Comments Off | 6 views]

Palung Mountain National Park is one of nature conservation area which has high biodiversity value, and various types of ecosystems including mangrove forests, swamp forests, peat swamp, freshwater swamp forests, tropical pamah forest, and montane forests that are always covered with fog .
This national park is the only tropical forest …

Siberut Islands, The Asian Galapagos
[17 Jun 2011 | Comments Off | 8 views]

Siberut Island is one of the Mentawai islands in West Sumatra that have high value of ecosystem. The island is located about 100-155 km from the western city of Padang, separated by the Mentawai Strait, 60% of the area is covered by primary dipterocarp forest, mixed primary forest, swamps, coastal …

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