Travelling to Pulau Untung Jawa at Pulau Seribu (The Thousand Island)

Travelling to Pulau Untung Jawa at Pulau Seribu (The Thousand Island)


Have you visit an island where located at bunch of island? Well, if yes, you should check this out to compare. This is the ones of most place to visit before die. Enjoy your journey and holiday with minimum budget.


Indonesia have lot of most popular tourism destination like Bali Island, Toba Lake, Bandung, Bunaken, Pulau Seribu (The Thousand Island), and a lot more. Pulau Seribu are located at sea between Borneo (north side) and DKI Jakarta (south side). Pulau Seribu is perfect places to visit. Not only for recreation and sea sport (fishing, Beaches recreation, Scuba Diving, Sailing), but also for "survival". There are some island with no "inmate", just you..island and sea.


Located about 45 km north of Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia, Pulau Seribu (also called Kepulauan Seribu) has a value conservation and unique ecosystem. With total about 1.180,80 hectares or 11.80 km square, 15.600 populations, Pulau Seribu Jakarta consist of 105 islands scattered at 4 districts. The main activities of resident of Kepulauan Seribu are fisherman. Some island at Pulau Seribu have become tourism destination such as Genteng Besar, Pulau Lipan, Pulau Macan,Pulau Melintang Besar, Pulau Perak, Pulau Putri Besar [Putri Island], Pulau Sebaru Besar. Some are still need development for tourism.



Travel to Pulau Seribu is easy to reach from Jakarta, especially from Ancol Dreamland. And the nearest island, Pulau Bidadari [Bidadari island] and Pulau Ayer[Ayer island] by speed boat it takes around 20minutes. Every day, from Marina Pier, or to Far Island (pulau Pantara [Pantara island], Pulau Kulkul Kotok [Kulkul Kotok island], Pulau Putri [Putri island], Pulau Sepa[Sepa island]) by speed boat it takes around 2 hours, due to for the efficiency of fuel of boat transportation.

Today every boat departure to Pulau Seribu have the minimum passanggers, please check to your travel agency about boat schedule to Pulau Seribu and cottage availablelity before you will travelling to pulau seribu jakarta.


In this moment, I'll introduce you a little beautification of Pulau Seribu.


Pulau Untung Jawa

Pulau Untung Jawa is one of bunch Pulau Seribu. You may reach the island from Marina Pier or from Tanjung Jawa (near Soekarno Hatta Airport). I suggest you to reach from tanjung jawa, because it's only take about 30 minutes to the island with a sailboat. From Marina Pier, you could spend 3-4 hours (even with a boat) depending to weather. To use sailboad, you need to pay about IDR 5,000 - 15,000 (about US$ 1). In this island, you may stay on homestay. I want you to keep in mind, this is not a hotel standard. It cost IDR 100,000 (US$8.33)/night for ingenuous - IDR 450.000 (US$37.5)/night with air conditioning facilities. Or, you could try a camping for free ones.


In this island, I and my familly stay for a couple days. This is small island with +/- 100 people. We could enjoy sea and beach panorama here by swimming, diving, circling, night fishing, or rent a sailboat.

If you rent a bicycle, then you could island-circling for 30 minutes only. Rent a bicycle cost IDR 5.000 (US$ 0,4) for one hour.

You could rent a sailboat from local citizen for travelling to near islands such as Pulau Rambut, Pulau Cipir/Khayangan, Pulau Bidadari, Pulau Onrus, and Pulau Kelor.


Pulau rambut
The bird homeland. This is ones of bird conservation island. Located near Pulau Untung Jawa, in this island we could see how bird perched on a branch from a 30 meter high tower station.

Pulau Cipir (also called as Pulau Khayangan)
In this island, we could see beautifull long beach. There no homestay and electrical, usually brave journer would stay here by camping and fishing for a view day. Very awesome and challengging!

Pulau Onrus
An island with lot of fortress. In this island we could see graves of the first founder, dutch soldier, and first family of the soldier. Indonesia used this island for hajj quarantine until 1970's. Hajj quarantine here before and after they went to Makkah from Jakarta. There was a hajj hospital here.

Pulau Bidadari
This is a well developed tourism place. There is a three star hotel with natural beach side. On this island, we could see a fortress that build by Dutch on +/- 1500 A.D.

Pulau Kelor
There is only one fortress here, nothing resident nor anchorage. I couldn't go there because of beachcomber. But, it is awesome to see this island from sailboat.


Well, for 3 day, you might be sent about IDR 4,000,000 (US$333.3)- IDR 6,000,000 (US$500) for 5 people. But, that's depend on your activities:)

Ok, that's my journey... so, what your journey will be? We wait your laugh here on Indonesia.