Paradise Island in Pulau Seribu
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Seribu Islands for duty-free zone: Only a dream?
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
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By Grace Emilia
JAKARTA (JP): Ardika, is a 55-feet boat for 16 people, often seen berthing at the pier of Marina Ancol Jakarta.
It has two cabins, complete fishing equipment and is fully air-conditioned.
In the good old times (before the monetary crisis), Ardika always lifted its anchor at least twice a week.
Rented by families going for holiday in Seribu Islands in North Jakarta, by nature lovers in search of the wilderness in Ujung Kulon at the western tip of Banten province, or by hunters looking for wild boars at Tanjung Belimbing in Lampung, Sumatera.
Many a time, big companies also rent Ardika for entertaining their business associates on board.
In brief, Ardika leads a busy and cheerful life.
The situation changed. The financial crisis struck everyone, including Ardika.
The boat is now sometimes not used for two months before someone takes it to sea.
""Currently, we rent it for Rp 5.5 million per 12 hours. It's a good rate. Before the crisis its rate was Rp 4 million per 12 hours. That is only a small hike compared to the three times increase in spare part prices.
Nevertheless, it is hard to sell the boat although every month we have to pay Rp 2.5 million for berthing in Marina Ancol,"" sighed Samhudi, Ardika's captain.
Captain Samhudi and his five crew members are not alone.
Asep, a counter officer of Pulau Pelangi in Marina Ancol also tells a similar story.
Before the crisis, Pulau Pelangi was thronged by Italian and Japanese tourists.
Presently, thanks to the domestic tourists and expatriates, the island economy is sustained. ""I think foreign tourists are concerned with the security issues in Jakarta,"" said Asep.
Pulau Pelangi, located about 70 kilometers from Marina Ancol or about one and a half hours by speedboat, is a near Pulau Sepa and Pulau Pantara.
The similarities of these beautiful islands are that they have sandy beaches and sit in the middle of a clean blue ocean.
""Very good for snorkeling and diving,"" says Jimny Tendean of Viany Tour & Travel, which deals with tours and accommodation in Seribu Islands.
""Most expats and foreign tourists come to these islands as they are unspoilt. Pulau Pantara has the best food, compared to the others, but it is also the furthest and most expensive.""
""Nowadays, the majority of tourists, especially the locals, visit nearby islands like Pulau Ayer and Pulau Bidadari.
Pulau Bidadari is the closest and thus the cheapest. These islands, especially Pulau Ayer, have swimming pools, karaoke bars and even Time Zone. Well-equipped facilities are important for tourist. However, unlike Pantara, Sepa or Pelangi, the surrounding waters in Bidadari and Ayer are not as clean as they are close to the mainland,"" explains Tendean.
Ramses Simanjuntak, public relation manager of PT Pembangunan Jaya Ancol, which owns Pulau Bidadari, even says that the island is not affected by the crisis.
Some 35,000 visitors landed on Pulau Bidadari last year.
On weekends, around 700 visitors throng the island per day. If the nine boats owned by PT Jaya Ancol are fully booked, it rents more boats from neighboring islands or from private individuals.
However, not all parties selling Seribu Islands in Marina Ancol are as lucky as PT jaya Ancol.
Though prices for accommodation, boat rental or diving equipment for foreign and domestic tourists are in the local currency, which is very good value for money, not many foreign tourists are keen on coming to Jakarta, or to sun bath or dive in Seribu Islands.
It is a shame as the potential for tourism in Seribu Islands is very big, especially in the northern islands whose nature is still well-preserved.
Caribbean
Well, let's see other parts of the world.
At the Bahamas in the Caribbean archipelago, there is one small island called Princess Cays which belongs to Princess Cruises, the Los-Angeles-based ship company owning big cruise ships that sail around the world, including to the Caribbean islands.
Princess Cays is a beautiful island with sandy beaches and a good diving spot. Once the tourists land on the island, they quickly stand in line to rent a small space for sun bathing on its beach.
Near the Princess Cays are islands belonging to U.S. Virgin Islands, which was founded by Christopher Colombus and named after St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix.
Presently these islands heavily depend on tourism -- mostly from the cruise passengers visiting the islands on big ships like the Grand Princess of Princess Cruises which can hold more than 4,000 people. Usually there are three to six of such big ships berthing in these isles during the high tourism season.
""Average spending of one cruise passenger is US$243. There were 1.7 million visitors to St. Thomas in 2000. Cruise passengers itself increases by 10 percent each year."" says Darr Conradson, vice president of marketing for Little Switzerland, which manages 17 jewelry shops in the Caribbean islands.
Yes, some islands in the Caribbean archipelago such as St. Thomas are well-known for being a center of duty-free goods like jewelry or precious stones imported from all over the world.
People can find tanzanite imported from Tanzania, gold from Italy, jewelry from Hong Kong or watches from Switzerland. Almost all shops claim their prices are 20 percent to 50 percent lower than in the United States.
During the colonial era, St. Thomas was used as the center of slavery. It's now home to 117,000 people with the average income of $26,661 per family.
Lucita Lewis, senior information officer of the U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Tourism, says the locals are very concerned about keeping the islands' security tight.
""Tourists will come if the islands are safe and secure,"" says Lewis though she refers more to the eradicating of pickpockets than riots when talking of a safe destination.
Dreaming
Yanti Sukamdani, chairperson of Indonesia Hotel & Restaurant Association's Jakarta chapter, who also an active supporter of the Jakarta Tourism Board, says Jakarta is targeted to be the a shopping, marine and MICE (Meeting, Incentive, Convention, Exhibition-red) destination.
As a marine destination, the facilities are adequate. On shopping, the goods sold in Jakarta are good value for money, probably the best in Asia.
If the image of Jakarta as a safe destination is restored, we can expect the northern isles in the Seribu Islands like Pulau Pelangi or Pulau Pantara to get busy again handling foreign tourists.
Probably big ships will also visit Jakarta and drop off thousands of its passengers to shop. If big ship are unable to berth in Marina Ancol, they can use boats like Ardika to transfer them to the islands.
Princess Cays does not have a big pier either. Grand Princess' passengers are all transferred to the island by tender boats.
Should cruise passengers want to see how Indonesians in the Seribu Islands ""actually"" live, they can go to Pulau Untung Jawa.
The locals sell handicrafts or other cultural products to the tourists. As in the case of U.S. Virgin Islands, probably Seribu Islands can also be promoted as a duty free shopping hub.
The World Travel and Tourism Council reports that since the 1980s, Indonesia has decided to prioritize travel and tourism for foreign exchange earnings.
Minister of Culture and Tourism I Gede Ardika says that he is targeting the tourist industry to increase foreign exchange earnings to $7.59 billion and to raise job and business opportunities by 2004.
The question now is: When will Jakarta restore its image as a safe destination so that it can develop its tourism potential to the fullest and feed the people by the money earned from it?
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
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Kapal Cepat Layani Kepulauan Seribu
Sunday, May 2, 2010
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Untuk mendukung sekaligus memudahkan aktivitas masyarakat Kabupaten Administrasi Kepulauan Seribu, Dinas Perhubungan (Dishub) DKI Jakarta berkomitmen kembali mengoperasionalkan kapal-kapal cepat atau Kapal Motor (KM). Sebelumnya, kapal-kapal tersebut sempat melayani rute menuju pulau-pulau permukiman di Kabupaten Administrasi Kepulauan Seribu ataupun sebaliknya.
Hingga saat ini, rute-rute tersebut telah kembali dioperasionalkan sejak Selasa (27/4/2010) lalu. Adapun kapal cepat yang kembali dioperasikan, yakni KM Lumba-lumba terdiri dari dua unit yang berkapasitas 50 penumpang dan KM Kerapu yang terdiri dari 6 unit dan berkapasitas 25 orang. Keduanya akan berangkat dari Marina Taman Impian Jaya Ancol (TIJA) pada pukul 08.00 dan akan kembali dari pulau tujuan menuju Marina TIJA pada pukul 14.00 setiap hari.
Nantinya, empat lintasan telah disiapkan bagi beroperasinya KM tersebut. Lintasan pertama dilalui KM Lumba-lumba melayani Marina-Pulau Untung Jawa, Pulau Pramuka-Pulau Kelapa pergi pulang (PP). Lintasan dua dilalui KM Kerapu, yang melayani Marina-Pulau Untung-Pulau Pramuka-Pulau Kelapa (PP).
Sejak pertama kali diberangkatkan, respons penumpang sangat baik. Khusus KM Lumba-lumba, penumpang akan dilayani oleh pramugari dan diberikan makanan ringan.
-- Zulkarnaen Muchtar
Lintasan empat dilalui KM Kerapu yang melayani Marina-Pulau Untung Jawa-Pulau Lancang-Pulau Pari-Pulau Pramuka (PP) dan lintasan lima dilalui KM Kerapu yang melayani Marina-Pulau Untung Jawa-Pulau Pari-Pulau Pramuka-Pulau Kelapa (PP).
Untuk tarif berdasarkan pembagian zona lintasan, yakni zona I antar-pulau Rp 25.000 ditambah Rp 800 biaya asuransi Jasa Raharja dan zona II dari Marina ke daerah tujuan akhir Rp 30.000 ditambah Rp 2.000 biaya asuransi Jasa Raharja.
Kepala Divisi Penyeberangan PT Pelita Anugerah Bahari (PT PAB) Zulkarnaen Muchtar mengatakan, sebagai rekanan yang ditunjuk Dinas Perhubungan DKI Jakarta untuk operator kapal cepat, pihaknya akan memberikan pelayanan yang terbaik terhadap penumpang. "Sejak pertama kali diberangkatkan, respons penumpang sangat baik," ungkap Zulkarnaen, Jumat (30/4/2010).
Untuk memberikan kenyamanan dan keamanan penumpang, sambung Zulkarnaen, setiap keberangkatan kapal dilengkapi dengan syarat pelayaran, seperti jalur pelayaran menggunakan GPS dan radio komunikasi perlengkapan keselamatan kapal seperti life jacket yang disesuaikan dengan penumpang dan ring boy. "Khusus KM Lumba-lumba, penumpang akan dilayani oleh pramugari dan diberikan makanan ringan," ungkapnya.
Bupati Administrasi Kepulauan Seribu Burhanuddin menyambut baik kembali beroperasinya kapal-kapal cepat Dinas Perhubungan DKI Jakarta yang melayani rute ke pulau-pulau permukiman di Kepulauan Seribu.
Dia mengatakan, program ini merupakan bagian dari upaya Pemprov DKI Jakarta menanggulangi masalah transportasi yang selama ini dihadapi masyarakat Kepulauan Seribu. "Kami menyambut baik beroperasinya lagi kapal cepat itu. Diharapkan dapat melayani warga Kepulauan Seribu," kata Burhanuddin.
Kembalinya pengoperasian kapal cepat di Kepulauan Seribu juga dalam rangka mendukung program Kepulauan Seribu sebagai salah satu ikon tujuan wisata bahari dan kuliner laut di DKI Jakarta.
Ia menambahkan, bagi penumpang yang berangkat menuju Kepulauan Seribu melalui Marina TIJA akan diberi keringanan yakni dibebaskannya biaya tarif di pintu masuk Ancol. "Kadishub sudah berkomitmen untuk berkerja sama dengan Pengelola TIJA. Ke depan, diusahakan penumpang bisa mendapat keringanan masuk Ancol," tandasnya.
Sebelumnya, kapal-kapal cepat tersebut juga telah melayani jalur transportasi laut menuju Kepulauan Seribu sejak tahun 2004. Namun, seiring perjalanan waktu, pengoperasian kapal cepat tersebut sempat terhenti pada tahun 2006.
Kemudian pada tahun 2008, kapal cepat tersebut kembali beroperasi. Sayangnya, hal itu hanya mampu bertahan selama empat bulan, hingga akhirnya kembali beroperasi pada tahun 2010
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Pantai pasir putih di pulau Seribu resort
Friday, July 27, 2007
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Video area pantai Pulau Sepa
Fasilitas pantai yang nyaman ini membuat wisatawan yang berkunjung kepulau banyak menghabiskan waktu untuk beraktivitas di sekitar pantai, dari bermain water sport, bermain pasir, berenang, memancing atau sekedar bersantai dibawah pohon yang banyak terdapat dipantai sambil membaca buku.
Pantai Pulau Sepa adalah salah satu pantai yang mempunyai pasir putih yang terkenal di resort di Kepulauan Seribu. kondisi air laut yang jernih, pantai yang bersih membuat wisatawan dapat menikmati rekreasi pantai yang diharapkan. Bersnorkeling dan berenang di area tepi pantai merupakan hal yang mengasyikan.
Photo Aktivitas Pantai di Pulau Sepa
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Diving Equipments
Friday, May 18, 2007
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Pulau Sepa Diving Equipments:: Pulau Sepa merupakan resort di Kepulauan Seribu yang banyak mempunyai spot dive yang baik, untuk dive diharuskan mempunyai dive license. Bagi pemegang dive license, berikut adalah beberapa tarif sewa peralatan dive di Pulau.
Tarif Pulau Sepa Diving Equipments
- Mask Rp.40.000 / day
- Snorkel Rp.20.000/day
- Fins Rp.40.000/day
- Snorkel Set Rp.75.000/day (Mask,Snorkel & Fins)
- Regulator Rp.85.000/day
- BCD Rp.85.000/day
- Wetsuit Rp.75.000/day
- Dive Gear Rp.275.000/day (Snorkeling set, Regulator, BCD & Wetsuit)
- Tank with air Rp.90.000/day
- Air Refill Rp.65.000/tank
- Weight and Belt Rp.25.000/day
- Weight Rp.5.000/kg
- Underwater Light Rp.65.000/night (with battery)
- Dive Master Rp.200.000/dive
- Dive Master Night Dive / DSD Rp.300.000/dive
- Boat Dive Rp.85.000/person Min 2 person
- Discover Scuba Diving Rp.550.000/Dive (Dive Gear & Instructor)
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Seasport Facilities Rate
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Pulau Sepa Seasport Facilities Rate
- Jet Ski Rp. 150.000 /15 minute
- Water Sky Rp.185.000 /15 minute /person
- Sepa 1-5 Rp.180.000/hour
- Leo 3&4 Rp.255.000/hour
- For Diving Rp.85.000/hour
- Traditional Boat Rp.120.000/hour
- Banana Boat Rp.50.000/15 menit/person
- Single Rp.20.000/hour
- Double Rp.40.000/hour
- Entrance Fee Rp.30.000/person
- Mooring Fee Rp.120.000/night
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Cottage Gurita
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
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Cottage Gurita Pulau Sepa Island Resort
Cottage Gurita di Pulau Sepa berjumlah 11 unit. Setiap cottage Gurita berbentuk tipe Kamar Studio. Cottage Gurita berada di bagian sebelah kiri dari Front office dan Restaurant. 11 unit cottage Gurita berderet memanjang satu dengan yang lain, menghadap ke pantai dan berada dilingkungan yang teduh dari pepohonan yang banyak terdapat di sekitar cottage. Silahkan lihat video cottage Gurita di bawah ini.Baca Selengkapnya ....
Sepa Island Resort di Pulau Seribu Jakarta
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
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PULAU SEPA ISLAND RESORT DI PULAU SERIBU JAKARTA
- Jenuh dengan kesibukan di pekerjaan dan aktivitas di hiruk-pikuk Ibu Kota Jakarta? Bosan dengan kemacetan, deru mesin mobil, asap polusi kendaraan? Ke mana Anda melepaskan kepenatan dan kejenuhan tersebut? Banyak pilihan untuk melepaskan kepenatan dan kejenuhan, tetapi tidak perlu jauh-jauh dari Jakarta.
- Jenuh dengan kesibukan di pekerjaan dan aktivitas di hiruk-pikuk Ibu Kota Jakarta? Bosan dengan kemacetan, deru mesin mobil, asap polusi kendaraan? Ke mana Anda melepaskan kepenatan dan kejenuhan tersebut? Banyak pilihan untuk melepaskan kepenatan dan kejenuhan, tetapi tidak perlu jauh-jauh dari Jakarta.
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Map Cottage
Monday, May 14, 2007
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Map Cottage di Pulau Sepa Island Resort
Map cottage fasilitas dan posisi lokasi cottage di pulau Sepa island resort. Pulau resort ini hanya seluas +/- delapan hektar saja. Sebagian dari pulau telah dibangun fasilitas dan prasarana resort lainnya. |
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Map Cottage Pulau Sepa
Didalam map cottage pulau Sepa diatas, tampak semua letak fasilitas - fasilitas yang terdapat di pulau Sepa.- 2 unit dermaga kapal (pier)
- Area Snorkeling dengan pantai pasir putih
- Cottage Gurita terlihat 11 unit berada di sebelah paling kiri.
- Cottage Flipper terlihat sebelah kiri dari front office (Flipper 1 AB, 2 AB dan seterusnya)
- Cottage Kakap hanya ada 1 unit didekat Front Office (FO)
- Front office.
- Cottage Penyu (1-10)
- Cottage Penyu AB,
PULAU SEPA ISLAND RESORT ACCOMMODATIONS
Type Cottage | Unit |
| Flipper ((No.1A+B,2A+B,3A+B,4A+B,5A+B,6A+B,7A+B) | 14 |
| Gurita (No.1 - 11) | 11 |
| Penyu 1-10 (No.1-10) | 10 |
| Penyu AB ( 1 Unit Penyu A, 1 Unit Penyu B) | 2 |
| Hiu (No.1 - 2) sudah tidak ada lagi | 2 |
| Total Room / Cottages | 39 |
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