Knowing About Culture in Batam, Indonesia.

Knowing About Culture in Batam, Indonesia.

Knowing About Culture in Batam, Indonesia. Its proximity to southeast Asia's most important trade and financial center, Singapore, has propelled Batam's development into one of Indonesia's lucrative industrial, trade and commercial zone. At same time, the island has also been transformed into one of the fastest growing tourist destinations in Indonesia. The infrastructure and facilities are experiencing booming growth as a modem airport, docks adn ship yards prepare the island for its role as one of the important free ports of southeast Asia.

Why Batam?

Though in Indonesian waters, in recent years Batam has become popular with day trippers and weekend visitors from Singapore and Malaysia, who flock to the island for its golf, duty free shopping, beaches and delicious seafood restourants. Given its strategic location and rich natural beauty, Batam is also trasnforming itself into a sophisticated recreation groud for international tourist. With the increasing flow of leisure and business travelers, Batam now turns its attention to improving its infrastructure, convention facilities and supporting service in a bid to become Indonesia's next attractive MICE destination.

Transportation

Batam's airport is the Hang Nadim International Airport, It has direct connections to Jakarta, Surabaya, Medan, Pekanbaru, Jambi, Palembang and Bandung. There are also two weekly flights to Johor Bahru in Malaysia. The islands is connected by several ferry service to nearby cities, including Bintan, Karimun, Singapore and Johor Bahru. The trip to Singapore takes only 20 minutes.

People and culture

The native people of Batam are Malay origin but, with the rapid growth and development of the area, various ethnic group from all over Indonesia has come here in search for jobs and better life. Traditionally, most of the people live in coastal villages, while the "Orang Laut" (sea people) continous to live on beathouses and generally fis for living.Eventhough Batam is multi-ethnic; The Malayan and islam tradition forms the root of the local culture. Both daily life and ceremonies have religious and mythical elements, expressed in dance, music and other forms of art.

Climate

The Sunny days within dry season between May and September are warm and pleasant. While in rainy season, between October and April, tropical showers will alternate with clear sky and sunshine. The average temperature of the day in coastal areas varies from about 28c (82f) during May, June, July to about 30c (86f) in March and October. The humidity is high (from a minimum of 70% to a maximum of 96%). The weather is most pleasant between May to Sepetember

Attraction

Dolphins Lodge
Dolphin lodge is a dolphin care center which also gives a chance for people to interact with dolphin. There are only 5 places in the world which have this kind of facility given to public, so it certainly is a reamakable experiene.

Maha Vihara Duta Maitreya
The maha vihara duta maitreya Buddhist temple is one of the examples of those great modern day monuments. It's massive and beautiful figure surely amazes people who are viewing it. It is regarded as one of the biggest temple ever built is South Asia.

Barelang Bridge
The barelang bridge is a chain of 6 bridges of various types that connect the islands of Batam, Rempang and Galang giving the system its name. The bridge is an icon of the local area and is a popular tourism site. Some locals call the bridge as Jembatan Habibie after Jusuf Habibie, who oversaw the project in construction, aiming to transform the Rempang Galang islands into industrial site.

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