Once abundant in the clear waters around Indonesia’s Raja Ampat islands, zebra sharks (Stegostoma tigrinum) were admired for their striking beauty. However, unregulated fishing in the 1990s and ...

Indonesian Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Bahlil Lahadalia, left, speaks to the media as photos from Raja Ampat Islands, including some AI-generated images that have been circulating on ...

In truth, they should be saved for places like Raja Ampat, an archipelago of some 1,500 turquoise-rimmed islands scattered throughout the crystal clear waters of Indonesia’s far-flung West Papua.

Join us on an epic journey to Raja Ampat, one of the planet’s most remote and breathtaking islands—untouched beauty, crystal ...

Indonesia's tourism strategy overly fixates on Bali, despite overtourism and declining economic returns. Remote gems like Ora ...

Raja Ampat, meaning ‘The Four Kings’, comprises of more than 1,500 small islands, coral reefs, and shoals surrounding the four main islands of Waigeo, Batanta, Salawati, and Misool.

In Raja Ampat's hundreds of islands, coral reefs and mangroves, conservationists have taken this idea to the extreme, helping individuals such as Dortheus take on leadership roles, design ...

TO GET MY advanced scuba certification, I flew about 20 hours from New York to Jakarta, then took another three island-hopping flights and a two-hour boat ride to a clutch of thatch-roofed ...

The Raja Ampat islands are so remote that most Indonesians have never even heard of them. Excursions to this corner of the archipelago in eastern Indonesia, off the coast of Papua in Cendrawasih ...

By point of comparison, the broader Raja Ampat Islands stretch across 40,000 square kilometers (15,400 square miles) of land and sea off the northwest tip of West Papua province.