Category: Indonesia Places

Pasi Island, The Other Beauty From Selayar

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Pasi Island Pasi Island is located in Bontoharu sub district, Selayar Islands regency, South Sulawesi. This island is precisely located at west side of Selayar island, for about 1 mile from Benteng subdistrict. It takes 15 minutes drive by boat. There are 2 villages in this island, which is Kahu-kahu and Bontoborusu village. Pasi Island in the outermost island of Selayar Islands regency. This island is mostly visited by those who want to go diving and fishing. Moreover, there are numbers of other islands that close to the Pasi Island…

Nasi Island, A Blissfull Island For The Residents

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Pulau Nasi Pulau Nasi or Nasi Island is an island in just north of Aceh, 15km away from Banda Aceh. Nasi in Indonesian means rice. If you are visiting Pulau Weh you will only be able to charter a boat directly to Pulau Nasi. It will be cheaper to catch the ferry back to Banda Aceh and get one of the public ferries to Pulau Nasi. Administratively, this island is part of Aceh Island subdistrict, Aceh Besar regency. Nasi Island is divided into 5 villages that all of them are…

Welcome To Manokwari

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Manokwari Manokwari is one of cities and regencies in province of West Papua, which is located at the western end of New Guinea. It is one of the seats of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Manokwari–Sorong. It is also the administrative seat of Manokwari Regency. It has a metropolitian area that has a population of 155000. The metro area includes Manokwari, Andai, Nuni, Amban, Insjoerifoeri, Maboi, Bakopti, Maikee, and Toebisjimila. The city of Manokwari becomes the capital of West New Guinea since Dutch colonization. Located at the northern part of…

West Lombok, When The Sun Goes To Set

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West Lombok West Lombok Regency or Lombok Barat, is one of the Indonesian Provinces in Indonesia, which is located in West Nusa Tenggara. It is located on the island of Lombok and the capital is Gerung. West Lombok Regency is bounded by North Lombok Regency to the north, Central Lombok Regency to the south, East Lombok Regency to the east and the Lombok Strait to the west. There is Mount Rinjani in the north of the region, which is one of famous mountains in Indonesia and the third highest and…

Banda Aceh The Historical City

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Banda Aceh Banda Aceh is the provincial capital and largest city in the province of Nangroe Aceh Darussalam, the island of Sumatra, with the elevation of 21 meters. The city was originally named Kutaraja, and determined as the provincial capital in 1956. Kuta Raja means “City of the King”, in reference to the founding of the Aceh Sultanate from Champa origins. Later its name was changed to Bandar Aceh Darussalam or popularly known as Banda Aceh, with the first part of the name coming from the Persian bandar meaning “port”…

Pekalongan Regency

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Pekalongan Pekalongan regency is one of Central Java regencies with the capital city of Kajen. This regency is bounded with Java Ocean and Pekalongan city in north, Batang regency in east, Banjarnegara in south, and Pemalang regency in west. The history of Pekalongan dated back to the early 12th century. A book written in 1178 by a Song dynasty official already had record of Pekalongan, then known to Chinese merchants as “Pukalong”, it was then a seaport of Java(then known as Dvapa); the king of Java lived at Pukalong, knotted…

The Pekanbaru Destination

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Pekanbaru Pekanbaru is one of Indonesia city, a capital for Riau province on the island of Sumatra. As it mentioned before that Pekanbaru is the busy strait for trading port and become the gateway from Indonesia to Singapore. The name of Pekanbaru is referred from Indonesia language of new market or pekan baru. Pekanbaru has slogan for the city of Bertuah or be fortunate. In other side, Bertuah is a abbreviation of Bersih, Tertib, Usaha Bersama, Aman dan Harmonis or it means as Clean, Orderly, Mutual Assistance, Safe and Harmony.…