Indonesian, The Beauty of Raja Ampat Islands

Raja Ampat is one of regencies in the province of West Papua, Indonesia. The capital district is located in Waisai.

This district has 610 islands. The four of them, namely Misool Island, Salawati, Batanta, and Waigeo, is the larger islands. Of all the islands, only 35 inhabited islands. Islands are uninhabited and mostly do not yet have a name.

As the islands, the only inter-island transport and supporting community activities Raja Ampat is a marine transportation. Similarly, to reach Waisai, the district capital. When using the aircraft, first to the city of Sorong. After that, from a trip to Sorong Waisai proceed to sea transportation. Facilities available are fast ships with a capacity of 10, 15, or 30 people. At a cost of approximately Rp. 2 million, Waisai can be reached within 1.5 to two hours.

The Raja Ampat island group spreads out over a huge area and consists of over 610 islands. The four largest islands are Waigeo, Batanta, Salawati and Misool and are located at the Westside of the “Bird head peninsula” in New Guinea. The Indonesian province Papua is the western half of the island of New Guinea, while Papua New Guinea is the eastern half.


Raja Ampat is frontier diving. One of the last truly wild places on earth, it has yet to succumb to the pressures of over fishing, coral bleaching, exploding tourism and overpopulation. The diving reflects this. Topside there are few roads, even few boats ply the water in the Raja Ampat islands on the "bird's head", the far northwestern end of Papua where Papua Diving is located. Underwater, the life is wild, extraordinarily plentiful and for the most part, unexplored.


Straddling either side of the equator, Indonesia sprawls in a broad 5,000 km arc from west of Singapore to Papua New Guinea in the east. The world's largest archipelagic nation, Indonesia boasts 17,000 islands, 80,000 km of coastline, 50,000 sq km of coral reefs, and 3.1 million sq km of tropical seas.

Indonesia’s easternmost province is West Papua (formerly known as Irian Jaya), which shares an enormous island with Papua New Guinea (PNG). Just off West Papua’s northwestern tip is a series of islands known as Raja Ampat, or 'The Four Kings’ in Indonesian.


Located within the famed Coral Triangle, this area is comprised of four large forested islands, innumerable smaller islands and rocky outcroppings, all surrounded by a seemingly endless expanse of azure sea.
Raja Ampat's diverse terrestrial and underwater topography is simply breathtaking. Massive tracts of primeval jungles blanket the islands, sheltering orchids, marsupials, birds of paradise, hornbills, and cockatoos.

Potential natural
Based on the potential of each district, the district plans to develop the area for four sectors, namely

Tourism
Especially nautical tourism, will be developed on the island Kofiau, Misool, Waigeo South and West, as well as Ayau Islands.

Plantation
By main commodity coconut and palm oil will be concentrated on the island of Pam, Kofiau, and Salawati.

Mining
Centered on the island of Salawati (coal, oil and gas); Waigeo and Gag (Nickel); Batanta and Misool (Gold and cement raw materials).

Fishery
Ayau Islands, Waigeo, Batanta, Salawati, and Kofiau.