How To Get There?
How to reach Derawan Island? It is time for an update of information. You can reach Derawan from Tarakan or Berau (= Tanjung Redeb)
Arrange a VISA in your home country first -> tourist can come in with a “tourist visa” (30 days, on the airport) but if you also visit as a researcher then view the instructions on this website about “Research permit procedure for Indonesia“ (2009).
1) Home -> Jakarta/Singapore -> Balikpapan/Tarakan
You first have to fly to Balikpapan or Tarakan. Balikpapan can be reached from Jakarta and Singapore.
From Jakarta it is better to take the morning flight to Balikpapan between 05.00 – 07.00 AM Jakarta time with Mandala, Lion Air, Batavia air or Garuda Indonesia. In this way you can connect with Batavia air, Kalstar/DAS to fly from Balikpapan – Berau (see scheme below) in 1 day.
Silk Air/Singapore Airlines has daily flights to Balikpapan. The flights on Mon/Wed/Thu and Saturday between Singapore – Balikpapan 07.55 – 10.15 are connecting with flight Balikpapan – Berau by Kalstar/DAS at the same day. From 2008 they drastically increased in price, so via Jakarta is a better option
Some options between Jakarta – Balikpapan
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Price |
JKT |
BPP |
Transit |
Price |
BPP |
JKT |
Transit |
|
| Batavia air s)a *Mo-wed-fri-sa |
298000-727.000 |
6:45 |
9:45 |
- |
? |
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| Garuda |
597.500-737000 |
6:20 |
9:25 |
- |
? |
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| Mandala |
231.500-477.500 |
6:00
|
9:00
|
|
|
17:50 |
18:50 |
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1 hour time difference between Balikpapan (BPP) and Jakarta (JKT) |
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2) Balikpapan – Berau
Flights Balikpapan – Berau (prices aug 2009). Flights from Tarakan unknown. There are also flights from Samarinda to Berau (“transit” in table below).
| Batavia air | ||||||||
| Trigana |
650.000 |
14:40 |
15:45 |
Y |
700.000 |
9:00 |
10:30 |
Y |
|
sunday |
10:55 |
12:00 |
- |
|
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| Kalstar |
720.000 |
8:30 |
10:00 |
Y |
746.000 |
7:15 |
8:15 |
- |
| 0542764882 |
|
15:30 |
16:30 |
- |
746.000 |
14:30 |
16:00 |
Y |
|
Transit in Samarinda Only Batavia air can be booked via internet |
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3) Berau -> Derawan:
Take a speedboat directly from Berau – Derawan (3 hours, 900.000rh speedboat). Speedboats congregate at the dock at the end of Jl P Antasari.
Or less quick but cheaper:
- Car (chartered or shared taxi) Berau – Tj Batu; (info in Table)
- Speedboat Tj Batu – Derawan
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Coming from Malaysia? Tawau -> Tarakan -> Derawan
From Tawau (Malaysia) you can take the boat to (Tarakan) Indonesia. There is a ferry every day except Sunday (3-4 hours, arriving ±17:00hr). You must therefore spend the night in Tarakan.
Tarakan -> Derawan:
Directly take a speedboat (3-4 hours, 4.000.000 rp)
Or less quick but cheaper via land:
- Public boat Tarakan – Tajung Selor (1 ½ hr, 80.000rp/p)
- Car Tj Selor – Berau (total car 800.000, fits 6-8 people)
- Car Berau – Tj Batu
- Speedboat Tj Batu – Derawan
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An example of the time it takes from The Netherlands to reach Derawan:
- Day 1-2; Travel Amsterdam – Jakarta (overnight flight), 1 night in Jakarta
- Day 3: Early morning flight Jakarta – Balikpapan (Garuda/Mandala/Batavia?) connecting with Batavia air flight Balikpapan – Berau (=Tanjung Redeb)
- Call ahead to arrange car that pick you up from Berau airport to go to Tanjung Batu (trip: 2-3hrs)
- Call ahead to arrange speedboat Tj Batu – Derawan (trip: ±30 min)
The trip back could be much shorter because you do not have to stay overnight in Jakarta if you book a flight that departs to NL in the evening.
- Depart with boat from Derawan early morning (06:00)
- ± 7:00 Car Tj Baru – Berau
- ± 11:40 Flight Berau – Balikpapan
- ± 14:00 Flight Balikpapan – Jakarta
- ±19:00 Flight Jakarta – A’dam
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