Seribu Island

Seribu Islands is an archipelago located in the north of Jakarta and on dealing directly with the Bay of Jakarta. Islands which has a center of government at Scout Island is included in the District Administration Special District Capital of Jakarta. The number of islands in the archipelago is only about 342 islands, including the islands of sand and coral reefs are vegetated or not. Island sand and coral reef itself amounted to 158. And not all islands were among the thousand islands were inhabited by humans since most of the islands in the Thousand Islands are uninhabited.

Thousand Islands not only have the beauty beneath the water, thus becoming one of the most favorite tourist spots maritime version of the magazine National Geoghraphic 2009, but also has a tourism potential that is not less interesting history can be packaged well. Tourism potential that history will become more attractive if the Directorate of Protection of Underwater willing to hand over the removal of cultural heritage objects from underwater sites. To that end, the Thousand Islands District Government needs to make a museum of history in the Thousand Islands, "said Edy Juanedi, Head of North Thousand Islands, at the Public Role Socialization Improvement in Handling of Underwater Heritage, Dictionary (29/04/2010) at Scout Island, Islands Thousand.

If you visit thousand islands there are several islands that can serve your marine tourism destination, such as Khayangan Island, Angel Island, the island of Onrust, Edam Island, Island Hair, Sun Island and other islands.