INDONESIA
is deeper than just having a snorkeling set and off to the water or taking pictures
of street scenery, higher than just a concrete top of view point and further than
its tarmac roads. Exploring this amazing archipelago nation is chaining small steps to a giant
adventurous life-time experience, the deeper, higher and further you explore it
the better you will take it home. Colorful
local life, diversity in culture, deep-green-rain-forests, crystal clear marine
parks, sky-rocketing volcano mountains and hundreds of unspoken and timeless
tourism resources are awaiting for everyone to explore. Try this simple local’s philosophy;
“EXPLOREINDONESIA deeper | higher | further“
and feel the differences. The Bureau | The Store | The Forum | The Team
Welcome to Explore Indonesia and we are pleased to share the beauty of our
archipelago with all of you. We are a group of environmentalists, explorers, travelers, students and others
who are since long time ago always seeking for the beauty of Indonesia
resources to fulfill our love of the country. Once or more a year we travel together or separately into those beauties for any
purposes related. After a long way passed, we are here ready to show you Indonesia with its great
assortment of natural splendors, diversified cultures with their unique traditions,
customs, legacies; and most of all, we always have smiles to share. Based on our expertise in organizing trip to deeper point of our off-shores,
expedition to higher peak of our mountains and exploration to further path of our
rainforests; we had proven that we can survive our primary spirit in our adventure
travel philosophy: “FRIENDSHIP OVER EGO”. We want to sustain the philosophy and even more, we want to invite you
altogether to experience our country - deeper, higher, further - yet in a manner
that we speak the same meaning of conservation and practice the same lesson
of ‘green travel’. OUR ORGANIZATION
We have divisions in our organization with dedicated roles and functions to
ensure our smooth operation
The Bureau
is a business division which is functioned as a normal tours & travel operator. The
bureau plans, organize and operate our products with profit orientation goals to
support the funding of our organization. The Bureau runs both Business to Business (B2B) and Business to Customer (B2C)
distribution of our products, surely through proper different channels. The Store
is a business division which solely support operation of our product by supplying
best quality gears and equipments for all travelers. The store also sells merchandise, gears and equipments to support the funding of
our organization
The Forum
is a non-profit divisions and functioned as information management center of our
organization where every team member can share every information related to
our activities and operation. The latest news related to National Parks and mountains in Indonesia is provided
by The Forum as well as guarantee smooth information traffic between The
Bureau and our customers as our after-sales service. The Forum also provides virtual discussion room for anyone concerns about
responsible-green- tourism issues as well as promoting our travel style which
adapt the principles of nature conservation. The Team members are
spread-out at Eights main regions in Indonesia and have direct contact with
every travelers who join our products. The Team provides services of our products and report to The Bureau regarding
materialization of every product. All the above divisions are licensed under:
Jl Kembang Kuning Kulon I No 33 Surabaya 60256
Email : [email protected]
PRODUCTS
We maintain our products to be viable to any environmental assessments, thus,
we can hope to minimize negative impacts on either physical or social
environment. We are moving towards responsible travel in forms that we build
friendship among us, empower local communities, and leave nothing but
footprints. All products will be based on our most experiences and well researched based
on a big circle of nature conservations and principles of responsible tourism. Sports, Recreations & Activities
All packages are purely inspired by unique and adventurous elements of sports,
recreations and activities. COVERAGES
Simply chosen and evaluated by our experts that all products will mostly cover
conservations areas which are providing zone to supports tourism industry such
as;
National Parks & Conservation Trails
At least 50 (Fifty) National Parks and others zone of conservation area in
Indonesia are ready to be visited. Mountaineering Expeditions
Despite types of mountain, Explore Indonesia provides more than one hundred
mountain challenging trails and spectacular sceneries. Culture, Ethnic & Objects
Others elements above are always lifetime available to be added as finishing
touch in our ecotourism package. STYLES
Tour, Expeditions & Routes
We offer vast range of packages to explore the archipelago but mainly we can
classified to three main category
Tours
Like ordinary travel style, participant will be accompanied by a local tour leader
to visit several objects and usually the trip will follow a certain sequence route. In
each object visited, there will be a local guide to es**rt and explain the object
attractions to participant
Expedition
is a journey with special interest to a certain area. Expedition usually has an
exact objective to be accomplished; e.g. expedition for a group of
Volcanologists to conduct their research, expedition of a group of
Anthropologists visiting local tribe, or just a group hiking a peak of a mountain. Routes
is our idea to give flexibility to participant to join our circular archipelago journey
from any part of Indonesia to any part of the archipelago. We have our tour
leader travelling across provinces in Indonesia and we published his schedule on
our website, thus participant can already know in which province he/she can
meet our tour leader, join the trip, and in which province the participant out of
the circle trip. Small Groups & Free Independent Travellers
We design every of our package to be viable to any of ecotourism principles,
and one of the reason why we maintain the size of every group to be necessarily
small is in order to minimize impacts of our visits and activities. The basic concept
of ‘carrying capacity’ of a natural area should not be exceeded to maintain
natural resources sustainability. On & Off Road Trips
Our packages are mainly conducted outdoor and surely participant will
experience on and off road in each of our packages. We provide the proper
vehicles and reliable quality of equipments to support both on and off-road
tracks. Archipelago in Shoestrings & Sea-treks
Indonesia has islands spread out across the equator and each of the islands has
unique attractions that worth to visit. Explore Indonesia facilitate overland tours
among the islands (Shoestring) and also packages that involve sailing to several
islands (Sea-trek)
VALUE
Colorful Local Life
Not merely beautiful scenery or the peak of mountains, we believe that local life
of community where our package is taking place also worth to be observed and
in some possibilities, we include activity for our guests to get into the local daily
life. As we believe that every civilization has its own values, wisdoms and
legacies, we reveal those all for the comprehensive experience of each
participant. Nationwide Nature Resources
Explore Indonesia a network of nationwide human resources who will guarantee
that all our packages are cover all Indonesia ecotourism resources available,
and always heading deeper | higher | further into those beauties. PAX
Pax is participant to each of our package. Every participant will be an agent of
environmental conservation, thus we will share our operation standard for each
of our package related to ethic of outdoor activity to minimize possible negative
impacts of the activity. We offer every participant to deal with their own supplies;
however, other types of support are still available on request. TANDEM
Most of our packages provide No Guide and No Porter in order to reduce the
number of persons entering fragile natural areas, but we provide our Tandem
who deals with Trip Management and Technical aspects which need to be
considered for entering every visited object. Tandem does not function as Guide
or Porter substitution, but will be participants’ travel-mate, and they will update
progress of the trip to The Bureau. GRADING
In order to ensure the enjoyment and responsible contribution to Indonesia’s
local life and nature resources, we classify all our packages into a grading
system with some parameters examined including age categories, level of fitness
and outdoor skills required, so participant may do self-examination based on the
parameters before choosing our package and explore it with us. RESPONSIBLE TRAVEL
Being responsible in travelling is more than just terms of natural conservation but
we expect overcome result from each of our packages by delivering our service
to satisfy participants’ travel motivations, while preserving natural resources,
empower local community’s human resources and unveil educational benefits
for both local and the participants from their trip. Environmental Friendly Tourism
‘Take nothing but pictures (experience) and leave nothing but footprints’. The
clause has inspired us to design packages that will obviously apply principles in
responsible tourism, to be environmentally friendly, both to natural and social
environment where our activity will take place. We had set our operation
procedures to maintain consistency of our commitment to the principles
application. Lightweight Expeditions
In accordance to efforts in minimizing negative impacts on environments where
our activities take place, we apply lightweight expedition mode, and we
implement it in every package. We eliminate unnecessary activities, bring
considerable amount of supply and substitute application of natural resources
e.g. we will not make any camp fire in each of our packages, we suggest not to
use porters for just bringing food supply, and we will cook with a portable gas-
cooker instead of using forest wood. Explore and Support
Our packages offer great enjoyments to participant, in the other side, bring
direct and indirect benefits to locals
INTO THOSE LOCAL’S
The best way to explore Indonesia is by getting dissolved into their;
Accommodations
Explore Indonesia will always do it’s best to ensure using maximum local
accommodations, like local family guest house, local house, and other type of
accommodation that is commonly used including tent. Meals
We introduce as much as possible Indonesian culinary heritage as part of our
local empowerment actions, however, in some areas where local restaurant are
not available, we encourage participants to join our tandem in preparing their
meals. This is an example of situation that determine the word of ‘friendship and
togetherness’ along every of our packages. Transportations
All of our packages offered will optimize public transportation usage. We
consider environment quality degradation caused by pollution and more fuel
(natural resources) consumption if we provide private coaches or buses for
participants, instead, we offer encounters between participants and locals while
they share the same public transportation. It is another interesting and total
experience of locals and for us, by doing this way, can make us even closer to
responsible tourism materialized as it should be. deeper | higher | further
in quality of product, style, environmental care, safety concern, supporting all
government conservation programs, touching local life and other aspects
related.
