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Bintan Island
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Bintan Island

Largest island of the Riau archipelago in the South China Sea, Indonesia; area 1,075 sq km/ 415 sq mi. Bintan is Indonesia's main bauxite producer. The low-lying, often marshy island also produces timber, rubber, tin, pepper, and gambier (a woody vine whose leaves are used in tanning). The main town and port is Tanjung Penang. There is an airfield in the north.

The bauxite mines here are the biggest in Asia, producing about 1 million tonnes a year, mainly for export to Japan.
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The ethnic Tamil migrants were seen being ferried away from the ship, the Oceanic Viking, on an Indonesian vessel amid heavy rain and high waves off Bintan island near Singapore.
Asylum seekers leave Australian ship by AFP / AFP Asian Edition
The group was among a total of 78 ethnic Tamils on the Oceanic Viking anchored off Bintan island near Singapore who had refused to leave the ship after being plucked from the sea by the Australians in Indonesia's search-and-rescue zone last month and taken to Indonesia.
Indonesia says S.Lanka refugees can stay for 3 months by AFP / AFP Global Edition
The group was among a total of 78 ethnic Tamils on the Oceanic Viking anchored off Bintan island near Singapore who had refused to leave the ship after being plucked from the sea by the Australians in Indonesia's search-and-rescue zone last month and taken to Indonesia.
S.Lanka refugees can stay for 3 months: Indonesia by AFP / AFP South Asian Edition
 
 
 
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