Inondesia's Paradise, Raja Ampat!

Raja Ampat looks like paradise, isn't it?

     Located off the northwest tip of Bird's Head Peninsula on the island of New Guinea, in Indonesia's West Papua province, Raja Ampat, or the Four Kings, is an archipelago comprising over 1,500 small islands, cays, and shoals surrounding the four main islands of Misool, Salawati, Batanta, and Waigeo, and the smaller island of Kofiau. Raja Ampat archipelago is the part of Coral Triangle which contains the richest marine biodiversity on earth.

     The name of Raja Ampat comes from local mythology that tells about a woman who finds seven eggs. Four of the seven eggs hatch and become kings that occupy four of Raja Ampat biggest islands whilst the other three become a ghost, a woman, and a stone.
History shows that Raja Ampat was once a part of Sultanate of Tidore, an influential kingdom from Maluku. Yet, after the Dutch invaded Maluku, it was shortly claimed by the Netherlands.
The first recorded sighting and landing by Europeans of the Ampat Islands was in the person of the Portuguese navigator Jorge de Menezes and his crew in 1526, on route from Biak, the Bird's Head Peninsula, and Waigeo, to Halmahera (Ternate).

     The English explorer William Dampier gave his name to Dampier Strait, which separates Batanta island from Waigeo island. To the east, there is a strait that separates Batanta from Salawati. In 1759 Captain William Wilson sailing in the East Indiaman Pitt navigated these waters and named one strait Pitt strait, after his vessel; this was probably the channel between Batanta and Salawati.
 
scr : wikipedia // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raja_Ampat_Islands

Under the sea.

MY HOLIDAY

   My holiday was not like 'holiday'. I mean, I just stayed at home and it seems like my life so boring. I spent my holiday to read novels. Sometimes, I went to Gramedia to bought some new books. But, I still felt boring.

   On the first day, I bought Percy Jackson's series. Did you know that novels? Then, my mom bought me Lorien Legacies, a series of novel entitled I Am Number Four. Have you seen the film? It was a good story, and a good film too. So, you can see that my holiday was full of books. I love reading, but read the book all of day, non-stop, made me so bored. I tried to watched some movies. In the first, it wasn't so bad but I slowly felt bored too. So, I started to calling my friends, to accompanied me go to somewhere. But, they were busy to preparing something! They asked me to help, and I said yes.

   So, one day I went to my school, SMAN 3 Bandung, and met my friends on Tiloe's Theatre. They would have the first performance on Nagabonar Terharu, an internal event on my school. Tiloe's Theatre is one of many extracurriculars on my school. I joined them too. They asked me to make the properties. With some friends who didn't got any role on the cabaret, I started to work. It was so fun! My friends are so funny and it didn't make me bored again. We worked so hard, so that the cabaret would success. The cabaret we would present entitled "Dua". It's a funny and interest story.

   We practiced dance too. We would present the dance on the climax of the cabaret. And all of the members of Tiloe's Theatre must to do this dance. I was so happy! Usually, after had the practice, we went to some cozy places, or just stayed at school and spent all day with joking and laugh. My holiday wasn't feel so bored again.

   At the end of holiday, Tiloe's Theatre presented the cabaret! We got many applause.