Bintan Island

Bintan Island ( Pulau Bintan Indonesian ) is the largest of Indonesia's Riau Islands is south-east of Singapore in the Malay Archipelago.

Geography

Bintan is located off the east coast of Sumatra and south-east of Singapore, south of the Malay Peninsula and east of the Indonesian islands of Batam and Rempang. The area of ​​the island covers 1173 km ², with a coastline of 246.2 kilometers. The highest elevation is the Bintan with 348 m.

In the southwest lie more, small islands:

  • Mapur in the West
  • Bintan Timur
  • Kelong
  • Gin - besar and Numbing
  • Mantang in the south

Tanjung Pinang in the south is the island 's capital and also the capital of the province of Riau Islands.

Traffic

Ferry connections exist with Singapore and Batam.

Economy

Tourism and industry are important economic factors.

Bintan Singapore supplied via a submarine pipeline with potable water. In the construction of the water reservoir in the early 1990s 6 villages with more than 2,000 families were resettled, but inadequately compensated.

Protests in January 2000 demonstrators clipping off the power supply of an industrial settlement, occupied other tourist facilities. A claim was subsequently a higher compensation for the expropriation of the soil. The protests were crushed, shot one person.

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  • Island (Asia)
  • Island (Indonesia)
  • Island ( South China Sea )
  • Kepulauan Riau
Riau Archipelago
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