Sawai Village, Maluku

Village of Sawai, Maluku, is one of destinations in the Manusela National Park. The waters are calm and clean. This tourism village has the same beauty with other islands in Indonesia. This village is famous for its beaches and sea. Most of the sea in the this village is still natural and well preserved. Sawai village is including the oldest villages in Maluku and it has several small islands surrounding it. These islands are also adds to the beauty of the Sea of ??Sawai. What is unique of this village…

Ternate and Tidore: Where The Cloves Made The History

Since early of the last millennium, the small islands of Ternate and Tidore in the Moluccas were the only source for cloves in the world. Indian, Arab, Chinese and Javanese merchants used to call on these islands to carry home this precious cargo which sold at exorbitant prices in Europe and the Orient. Cloves, together with nutmeg and mace from the Banda islands were used to flavor and preserve food, as medicines and even as aphrodisiacs. But after the Crusades, the trade route to the Far East was blocked for…

Gamalama Mountain, North Maluku

Gamalama Mountain is located in Ternate, North Maluku Province, Indonesia. Gamalama is one of the volcanoes in North Maluku Province. In addition to this mountain, there’s Mount Gamkonora in West Halmahera District, Mount Ibu and Mount Dakona residing in North Halmahera District, and Mount Kiebesi in South Halmahera. Gamalama itself is located on the island of Ternate and has a height of about 1715 m ASL (above sea level). Gamalama Mountain, which is also often referred to as the peak of Ternate, is a stratovolkano, the volcano high and conical,…

Tagalaya Island, North Maluku

In Tobelo, North Maluku, there is a beautiful island which totally promoted by the government; Tagalaya island. The island of Tagalaya is giving cleaning water as glass and natural view like paintings. The beauty of Eastern Indonesia is never get enough to be discuss. We all agree that Maluku have dozen islands and hundred of wonderful beaches. The beach and island in Ambon, Ternate, Halmahera and the others surely can interest thousand tourists to visit and enjoy the natural charming. An island in Tobelo will totally teasing you. Its sea…

Sula Islands – North Maluku

Sula Islands The Sula Islands (Indonesian: Kepulauan Sula) are a group of islands in North Maluku in Indonesia. Its three main islands are Mangole, Sanana (Sula Besi/Xulla Besi) and Taliabu, with smaller islands Lifamatola and Seho. It is administered as Kepulauan Sula Regency (Kabupaten Kepulauan Sula), with its administrative capital at Sanana on the island of the same name. According to government data Sula Islands District’s food crops include vegetables, groundnuts, cassava, sweet potatoes, durian, mangosteen and mango. As of 2005 the area of agriculturally active land was 24743.56 hectares…

Maitara Island – The Genuinely Role Model

Maitara Island Maitara Island is an island in North Maluku, Indonesia. Maitara island is located just 30 minutes by using speed boat from the Ternate island. Maitara Island is a small island between Tidore and Ternate. Due to the small but beautiful, this island is used for icons in Rp. 1000 profile picture. Some circles in Maitara Island is dominated by white sandy beach and there are diversities of fish and corals, which are well preserved. Maitara Island lies between the southern island of Tidore and Ternate island, or rather…

Halmahera Island

Halmahera Island Halmahera, which also known as Jailolo or Gilolo, is the largest island in the Maluku Islands. It is part of the North Maluku province of Indonesia and Sofifi, the capital of the province. It is located on the west coast of the island. This island is consist of 5 regencies: Halmahera Timur / east Halmahera, Halmahera Selatan / south halmahera, Halmahera Barat / west halmahera, Halmahera Utara / north Halmahera, and Halmahera Tengah / central Halmahera. The island is shaped in K letter, it almost like a miniature…

Gebe Island, North Maluku

Gebe Island Gebe island is an island that located in the easternmost end of North Maluku, precisely part of central Halmahera regency, North Maluku. But in fact geographically, culturally and faunistically it already part of the Raja Ampat Islands of neighbouring West Papua. Locally, it is best known for its large mine. Gebe island is divided in four villages, which is Sanafi, Kacepi, Umera, and Omnial that located in Yoi island. Most people on Gebe, especially in the main town, are migrants from other regions attracted by jobs in the…

Jailolo, The Volcanoes Complex

Jailolo Jailolo is a sub-district in West Halmahera regency, in North Maluku. Jailolo is a volcanic complex on a peninsula (Jailolo Bay). It has lava flows on the eastern flank, small caldera at the west and southwest of the mountain, hot springs along the northwest coast of the caldera. The volcano consists of Jailolo stratovolcano in the centre of the complex, ac 1.6 km diameter caldera (Idamdehe) in the west, and mall calderas west and southwest of Jailolo. Small volcanic island was formed by the Kailupa cone, off the southern…

The Path To Morotai Island

Morotai Island Morotai island, is an island and definitive regency in Halmahera, North Maluku, which is the Northest island in Indonesia. During the 15th century and 16th, Morotai under the powerful influence of the Sultanate of Ternate. This is the core of a large area called the Moro, which include coastal islands of Halmahera and close to Morotai to the south. This island became the airfield for the Japanese during World War II. This island was taken over by the force of United States in September 1944, and being used…