Bintan’s chief tourist attraction recently is Bintan Resorts, a spectacular beach vacation destination at intervals the north of the island, covering 23,000 hectares along the total sandy white coast that faces the South China ocean. The island itself additionally has fascinating historic remains in Tanjung Pinang and Penyengat, and offers tons opportunities for surfing, journey and ecotours for schools and family, but is additionally ideal for relaxation and wellness. While, for dive enthusiasts the Anambas archipelago at intervals the South China ocean give pristine dive sites, reachable from Tanjung Pinang airport. Whereas,the Natuna islands are reachable from Batam.
Strategically located south of the Malay peninsula at the mouth of the Straits of Malacca, the Riau islands were, ever since the first century AD, the favourite holding area for Indian and Chinese trading ships to go looking out shelter and wait out typhoons that raged at intervals the South China ocean and thus the Indian Ocean. Already in 1202 Marco Polo, the famous Venetian world traveller, told of his voyage to the island of Bintan.
It is little surprise, therefore, that at intervals the eighteenth century, European merchants, - the Portuguese, Dutch and thus the British - fought each other and thus the native sultanates additionally as a result of the Malay and Bugis mariners in these waters for hegemony over this strategic shipping channel. At the time, this a locality of the Malay Peninsula was dominated by the Johor-Riau Sultanate, whose seat alternated between Johor – in gift day Malaysia - and Bintan Island, in gift day Indonesia. In 1884 the British and thus the Dutch closed their variations over these islands with the signing of the Treaty of London, by that each one territories north of Singapore got suzerainity to the British, whereas territories south of Singapore were ceded to Dutch powers. Since then the fate and history of the territories north and south of Singapore parted ways in which. Singapore became the center of thriving British commerce, whereas, the Dutch who targeting gift day Jakarta on Java, left the Bintan islands isolated and neglected from the central power.
In the past decades, with cordial relations between Indonesia and Singapore, an agreement was signed between the two governments to develop the Riau islands cooperatively to find out every countries at intervals the designated Free Trade Zone of Batam, Bintan and Karimun islands. A primary feature of this agreement was the event of the Bintan Resort, a beach vacation destination, covering twenty 3,000 hectares along the total sandy white coast of Bintan that faces the South China ocean.
