Scuba Diving Indonesia is world renowned for its incredible marine biodiversity. Some Indonesian dive destinations are already famous.

Komodo National Park for drift diving with pelagics, and muck dives in North Sulawesi. The rich walls of Bunaken Marine Park and the critter haven of Lembeh Strait, the underwater limestone scenery of Raja Ampat, or the Wakatobi Islands with their long, pristine reefs.

Scuba diving in Indonesia includes these other wonderful underwater treasure troves:

With their amazing coral formations, Alor and Pantar Islands (Flores) are favourite dive locations for adventure-loving divers.

Ambon and Halmahera in the Spice Islands (Maluku) offer outstanding muck diving and healthy reefs.

Bangka Island (N Sulawesi) is popular with divers seeking more isolated areas. The dive sites can have currents but offer colourful corals swarming with small, tropical fishes and many hunting pelagics.

In West Papua:
– Cendrawasih Bay is famous for the resident Whalesharks which feed at fishing platforms.
– Manokwari Bay for its WWII Japanese shipwrecks.

In the Gulf of Tomini (central Sulawesi), Gorontalo (also known as ‘The Sponge Capital of the World’) remains relatively unexplored, while the Walea Strait offers an ideal environment for healthy and gorgeous coral life along with very calm seas.

Maratua and Sangalaki in Borneo have impressive drop offs with great drift diving to see pelagics.

These areas, and many more, in Indonesia make up the world’s richest marine biogeographic zone.