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Indonesia

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Travel to Indonesia travel

Indonesia is a truly hidden gem in the Southeast Asia although it is a massive in size, having over 17,000 islands with 240 million people! You will discover that lots of tourists love coming to Indonesia due to how gorgeous and varied this country is. Famous to numerous as Wonderful Indonesia, it takes you the second biggest tropical forests, several pure beaches with grand dive sites and surfing waves, wonderful hikes to active volcanoes and wildlife. Backpackers can enjoy the adventure of discovering the unbeaten tracks while comfort seekers may get that they do definitely have lots of choices too.

Diving in Indonesia

With one of the longest shorelines in the earth, there are several dive sites to opt from. What’s also great is that Indonesia is a part of the Coral Triangle of the earth. This denotes that this one country has 20% of the world’s coral reefs, resulting in a magnificently varied marine life! In addition to bright and vibrant dives, you will also come across a wide range of experiences. Raja Ampat, in the country’s Far East, is identical in the dive planet with a mountaintop experience. From Bali’s unique Liberty wreck that’s a simple shore dive, the country’s marine treasures brush east and north through the Flores, Banda and Celebes seas.

Diving regions in Indonesia (8)

Alor

A remote archipelago in the eastern Lesser Sunda Islands offering reef, wall, and pelagic diving driven by some of Indonesia's strongest currents.

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Bali

Indonesia's best-known dive island, combining an accessible shipwreck at Tulamben with reef and pelagic diving off Nusa Penida.

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Banda Islands

A historic volcanic group of ten small islands in the Banda Sea, once the world's sole source of nutmeg, now known for deep, current-swept wall diving.

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Bunaken

Bunaken is a small island and the namesake of Bunaken National Marine Park at the northern tip of Sulawesi, renowned for exceptionally high coral and fish diversity.

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Komodo National Park

Komodo National Park is a marine and terrestrial protected area in the Lesser Sunda Islands, known for its rugged volcanic islands and reef-rich waters within the Coral Triangle.

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Lembeh Strait

A narrow strait in North Sulawesi separating the mainland from Lembeh Island, internationally regarded as the birthplace and benchmark of muck diving.

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Raja Ampat

Raja Ampat is a vast archipelago of more than 1,500 islands, cays, and shoals off the Bird's Head Peninsula of New Guinea, widely regarded as an epicentre of the Coral Triangle's marine biodiversity.

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Wakatobi

Wakatobi is a regency of around 150 islands in Southeast Sulawesi, named after its four main islands, and encompasses Wakatobi National Park, one of Indonesia's key coral reef conservation areas within the Coral Triangl...

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Dive centers in Indonesia (67)

Country info

Capital
Jakarta
Region
Asia
Subregion
South-Eastern Asia
Population
258.705.000
Area
1.904.569 km2
Currency
Indonesian rupiah (IDR)
Languages
Bahasa Indonesia
Time zones
UTC+07:00, UTC+08:00, UTC+09:00
Dialing code
+62
Demonym
Indonesian
Top-Level-Domain
.id
Staatenbuende
Association of Southeast Asian Nations