Survey Story

Around 9,634 islands in Indonesia are nameless. Here is the story of a team which records data on remote islands.

August 16, 2005

FOR the past year, Abdi Tunggal, 28, has been living two distinctly separate lives. As an employee of the Department of Maritime Affairs & Fisheries, his office is on Jl. Merdeka Timur, Central Jakarta. His days are filled with the traffic noise and snarl-ups on the streets. However, at least every two months, he goes off to remote islands that are very quiet. They are so remote that even fishermen seldom go there.

That is the consequence of being

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