Batam

Friend owns and operates a kelong (fishing outpost) here. Great place to unwind, good fresh fish!!!

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just passed by on the way to somewhere else

great golf courses – some of the best around. anything else? nope

I lived here for 18 months. Largely industrial & polluted, it is the prostitution centre of the region. Friday night ferries from Singapore are full of Singaporean men with golf bags taking advantage of the cheaper rates than the outrageous price for a game in Sing, who will more often than not take advantage of the tens of thousands of girls working on the island.

It is a frontier city, largely unpleasant – even the Indonesians living there do not like it. But it has jobs and a booming economy, so they stay.

There are some quite beatiful parts of the island, largely at Nongsa in the North where there are a handful of pleasant resorts. If you stay at one, ask for a taxi to a seafood restaurant that isn’t part of the resort for lunch . If you get the right one, it can be a magnificant experience of life in and around a local village…