Looking to get up close and personal with spectacular aquatic life? These Indonesian islands offer the perfect place from ...

TO GET MY advanced scuba certification, I flew about 20 hours from New York to Jakarta, then took another three island-hopping flights and a two-hour boat ride to a clutch of thatch-roofed cottages ...

RAJA AMPAT, Indonesia — Throughout time, explorers have combed the farthest reaches of the world for that one shot of discovering new life. Dr. Mark Erdmann has taken that shot 89 times. Since coming ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The number of tourists visiting Raja Ampat, Southwest Papua, has been rising over the past five years. In 2024, the number of visitors amounted to 33,277 people, as reported by the ...

Once we can travel, put this Indonesian archipelago on your bucket list: 1,500 islands, 1,400 species of fish, 600 types of coral, and all the luxuries of the small ship Aqua Blu. “Arrival is never ...

Sudden movements, we are warned, will scare away the mantas. It will also interrupt their necessary hygiene ritual, thereby increasing the environmental pressure on this beautiful species. We are four ...

On Sept. 27, UNESCO designated 26 new biosphere reserves, including Indonesia’s Raja Ampat, which is also recognized as a UNESCO Global Geopark; the two designations make it one of few places on Earth ...

The creation of seven vast marine parks in the indigenous territories of Papua, Indonesia, has made the islands of Raja Ampat a test case for the impact of conservation on local people. Many ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Bishop of Timika from the Order of Saint Augustine (OSA), Bernardus Bofitwos Baru, criticized the environmental damage caused by nickel mining in Raja Ampat, South West Papua, ...

Indonesia has revoked four out of five nickel mining permits in Raja Ampat after public pressure and findings of environmental damage in the ecologically sensitive archipelago, home to some of the ...