Whale Museum Built in Tidung Kecil Island

The entire project is targeted to finish by the end of this year

The Seribu Islands Administration built a Whale Museum in Tidung Kecil Island, Tidung Island Urban Village, Seribu Selatan Island Sub-District. It aims to attract domestic and foreign tourists. This is because, in 2012, a sperma whale in a diameter of 6x12 meters was found stranded at Tidung Kecil Island waters. They then decided to make an hangar as whale bone storage.

Head of Agriculture and Forestry Section, Seribu Islands Marine and Agriculture Sub-Department, Solihin disclosed Seribu Islands Administration was determined to run the agro-tourism program in Tidung Kecil Island. Its island has a width of 17 hectares, but now about 2.5 hectares used as agro-tourism area.

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Besides whale museum, the government is also building road inspection and jogging track as long as 800 meters, developing biogas from cattle manure, building a levee as long as 80 meters, as well as welcome gate in such island. "The construction itself has spent Rp 4.9 billion," he told, Monday (12/22).

He uttered that such levee that built right at the island entrance would be equipped with cultivation of ornamental fish type haceri and grouper. By so, the visitors can feed or touch the fish. "The entire project is targeted to finish by the end of this year," he stated.

In addition to agro-tourism area, he added, his side is currently studying submission of asset management area as wide as 6 hectares in Tidung Kecil Island from Seribu Islands Regency to Seribu Islands Marine and Agriculture Sub-Department.

With the expansion of the tourist land, the status of agro-tourism planned to be upgraded into ecotourism area. "It is still being studied. In future, the island will be used as ecotourism," he finished.