Beautiful Shades Of A Thousand Islands

Kepulauan Seribu or Thousand Islands is named after the total amount of small island nearby the mainland Java. You can visit one or several of the islands from Jakarta by boat. The nearest island is about 1 hour by boat, but the most north is about 6 hours by boat.

The place is very quite, with several resorts and hotels. Kotok island is one of the island in this group of island, and it provide you a nice place to dive or snorkling.

The fish is not afraid of human since it's very rare of people going there and they are totally beautiful. Coming to the water surface soon as you drop few bread crumbs.

Thousand Islands (Indonesian: Kepulauan Seribu) is the only regency of Jakarta, Indonesia. A string of 105 islands stretching 45 kilometres north into the Java Sea, with the closest lying in Jakarta Bay only a few kilometres off mainland Jakarta.
With total land area of 8.7 km² the population is about 20,000. Pulau Pramuka is the regency seat[citation needed] of the Thousand Islands although the most populated island is Panggang.[citation needed] The area is a marine national park although development is allowed on 37 of the islands. Some islands are uninhabited, others have resorts and a number of them are privately owned by wealthy Jakartans.

Bidadari is a resort island only several kilometers off shore, Kelor is adjacent Bidadari on which the ruins of a Dutch fort lie, and Onrust is also adjacent Bidadari and has the remains of an 18th century shipyard. Ayer and Laki are resort islands also only several kilometers offshore.

Panggang the district centre,[citation needed] and Kelapa the most populous island are about 15 kilometers north of Jakarta and are poor fishing villages. Panjang has the islands’ only airstrip while Bira has a golf course. Kotok, Macan Besar, Putri, Sepa, Pelangi, Papa Theo, Antuk Timur, and Antuk Barat are all further off shore and have resorts.

Seribu Islands the proper and real name of thousand islands is seribu islands. why? unesco prefer to use seribu islands. in this case seribu is name, not number. so if we translate kepulauan (islands) seribu (seribu), it’s better to use SERIBU ISLANDS.

Kepulauan Seribu or Duizend Eilanden in Dutch lingo approximately contents of 600 islands and laying on Jakarta Bay which can be reached from Tanjung Priok harbor [modern facility], Pasar Ikan [Fish Market, traditional, famous world wide since the past centuries, especially during the first occupation of Dutch undername of VOC/Verenigde Oost Indische Compagnie] nearby Sunda Kelapa harbor [also traditional and famous world wide in the past] and from several piers at Marina Ancol [modern amusement parks and gateway to Jakarta Bay].