Good News From Indonesia

The Indonesian hotel industry is discovering the strong potential for revenues and profits to be earned form the country’s growing budget in hotel sector. There are points to the large number of relatively new players in the budget hotel sector, including: Amaris, Tune, Whiz, Pop Harris and Formule1. Investors are attracted to the budget hotel [...]

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Going against the advice of seemingly every single guidebook in existence, I recently took off to Belitung Island with the goal of hiring a bicycle for some two-wheeled touring of Tanjung Pandan, a mining town. The word in most guide books and big city travel agencies is that there was not much to see or [...]

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One of our GNFI contributors from Malaysia, had the privilege of visiting Mount Bromo last month, and she lives to tell the tale. This article is written by one of her travel companions, and has since been published on Malaysian National News Agency (BERNAMA) Note: The photographs used here are from their personal albums. SURABAYA [...]

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TEMPO Interactive, Kupang:Hundreds of youth from the “World Assembly of Youth” (WAY) together with the Indonesian National Youth Committee (KNPI) in Jakarta will visit Komodo Island, West Manggarai regency, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), this February 23-28. They will conduct a field study on the impacts of climate change on the environment in the area and campaign on [...]

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INDO-PACIFIC Health of Marine Environment 1. (Tie) Galapagos and Indonesia — To find truly healthy marine environments, you need one of two ingredients — either a strong protection plan or a vast country that is still relatively unexplored. The Galapagos fits the first requirement, with a stringent marine reserve that’s been in place since 1998, [...]

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A couple days ago when i was reading TIME,  i found an article about Pulau Macan near Jakarta, which TIME compliment it as “Best Weekend Getaways”. frankly speaking, it was the first time i ever heard about Pulau Macan, and somehow that made me feel ashamed about myself. how could a foreigner know better about [...]

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UBUD, INDONESIA — After spending weeks searching the hills of Bali for a home to buy, John Duffield and Rachel Plecas settled on a house that was something of a snake pit. But even though they found a python slithering through the run-down house during their initial inspection, they fell in love with the overgrown [...]

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We all know that some richest biodiversity (especially plants) on earth are available in Indonesia. But, we have to admit that other countries also have their own attraction of nature. Yet, we still don’t have to travel around the globe to see the uniqueness of plants because Cibodas Botanical Garden has all you need to [...]

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With more than 17,000 islands and some of the richest biodiversity on earth, Indonesia is a natural paradise. To go along with its breathtaking natural scenery, the archipelago also boasts a hugely diverse range of cultures and religions. Whether you want to take in the world’s highest diversity of coral species while diving the reefs [...]

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AHA! If things run smoothly, no political non sense, in 2015, Bali will have a tourist train as a mean to travel overland. The train is expected to ease congenstion currenly horrorizing Bali roads, especially in the south part. Memorandum of Understanding has been signed by the Indonesian Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Ministry of [...]

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