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Live-aboards are the obvious solution to diving in Indonesia, with its thousands of islands and huge area. Some of the boats are luxurious and expensive but take you to the top dive locations in Indonesia. A few are more basic.

Indonesia's Dive Sites

The sites listed below are the main ones in Indonesia, with compressors, equipment and other facilities for diving. They appear here in the order they appear in this book, roughly west to east across the archipelago.

West Java. The Pulau-Pulau Seribu—"Thousand Islands"— dive area is quite close to the capital of Indonesia, Jakarta, and many efficient dive clubs provide all the necessary transportation and services to these islands. There is some interesting diving here, but in general coral and fish life is quite limited, and the visibility poor. The clubs will also take you diving off the islands around the famous Krakatau volcano, and off the Ujung Kulon Nature Reserve on the tip of southwest Java.

Although it makes a heroic effort to connect the archipelago's far-flung islands, Merpati Airlines is often the bane of travelers to Indonesia. Above is one of the airline's rugged Twin Otters in Karubaga, Irian Jaya.