Selayar Island is an archipelago, part of , South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. It lies in the Flores Sea, and it located between Sulawesi and Flores, now it is handling by Drs. H. Syahrir Wahab, M.M as the regent of Selayar Regency. It is covering 903,35 km² with a population of about 100,000. There are 73 islands, the principal being Selayar Island. Selayar’s thick primary jungles hide two massive 7 tiered waterfalls that tumble to the coast from one 500 meter mountain peak.
Selayar in 12th century was controlled by Luwuk Kingdom, one of the first kingdoms in South Sulawesi. Selayar ever became trade troute, it also had good relation with some kingdoms like Buton, Bone and Gowa. Some years ago, its name was Kabupaten Selayar, but now it becomes Kabupaten Kepulauan Selayar.
Selayar, a secluded island, far away from mass tourism, lies in the Celebes Sea to the south of the Indonesian Island Sulawesi. Myths have been kept alive on this small island which once lay on the Chinese trade route. The west side of the island is mainly inhabited by fishermen, who live in small villages that continue to follow their traditions largely unaffected by western influences. Besides traditional fishing, the growing of vanilla and tangerines generate the main sources of income on the island.
Selayar has some interesting object such as underwater wonderland which include Takabonerate national Sea Park, the Dong Son gong –the oldest and biggest in the world-,field of dreams, the sea gypsies (Orang Bajau) who have special skill in fishing, beautiful sunsets and many other serendipity from people of Selayar. The government built many facilities for support the Tourism object in Selayar. There are some resort that owns longest house reef in Indonesia, the bungalows which built in traditional Indonesian style, restaurant and the transportation facilities like airport and harbor.
From the above explanations, Taka Bonerate is one of the special object in Selayar island. South Sulawesi Government ever held Expedition in Takabonerate 2009 to introduced it as Tourism object. Takabonerate consist of many ecosystem in the 2,220 square kilometer area. It is located approximately 79-206 mil Flores sea south of Benteng, the capital city Selayar, Accessible from the harbor ferry boat Pattumbukang using approximately 3 hours or with a speed boat for 1,5 hours. This area is designated as a Marine National Park, because it has an area of 220,000 hectares of coral atoll which is the third largest Coral Atoll in the world. . The atolls rise abruptly from a deep oceanic trench and offer some fantastic wall diving in good visibility. The additional advantage here is that the area is still untouched by dive tourism and can be considered as one of the worlds few remaining dive frontiers.
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