Untung Jawa Island Thousand Islands

The wooden boat arrived sharply at noon time and de­spite of the old harbor gate, I saw many local tourists com­ing that weekend for a one day trip. They must live in the village near by the har­bor. Untung Jawa islands is a little bit different from the ones at Pramuka and Tidung islands where the facility are more completed even the two islands are far enough from Ja­karta. First day at Untung Jawa islands was to go around the hostel that is only few meters from the beach,

The next morning, after a quick simple breakfast, I rent a bicycle and had a little tour on my own. I smell the fresh fisherman village and passed the shore which was not really clean like those in Kotok and Sepa islands. Going little far from the centre of crowd, I saw a Mangrove forest where the lo­cal ibu doing her responsibility for the goodsake of the island she lives in. This local ibu has learned about the reclamation of Mangrove, she harvested the young mangrove and planted again at the edges of the sea. She said, she wanted to see her islands without any problem in the future. In this islands, it is forbidden to use Styrofoam in order to keep the environ­ment green. I saw some young men taking all the islands litters wearing their nice orang jacket, they are the clean heros of the islands.

From Untung Jawa islands you can rent a wodden boat with some friends to explore the nearest islands, to discover the treasure that might be not exposed, who knows? Enjoy your time…and do what you like most, like I did in this pret­ty enough islands.