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  2. Batam metropolitan area - Wikipedia

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    Batam metropolitan area or officially Batam Raya is a metropolitan area located in Indonesia. This area includes Batam city and its surrounding areas such as Tanjung Pinang city, Bintan Regency, and Karimun Regency. This region of the Riau Islands Province near the Strait of Malacca includes one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world. It ...

  3. Batam - Wikipedia

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    Batam, officially the City of Batam (Indonesian: Kota Batam, not to be confused with Batam Kota, a district within this city), is the largest city in the Indonesian province of Riau Islands. The city administrative area covers three main islands of Batam, Rempang and Galang (collectively called Barelang ), as well as Bulang to the west and ...

  4. Riau Islands - Wikipedia

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    With the initial aim of making Batam an Indonesian version of Singapore, according to Presidential Decree number 41 of 1973, Batam Island was designated as an industrial working area. This was supported by the Batam Island Industrial Area Development Authority, better known as the Batam Authority Agency (BOB) which is now the Batam Development ...

  5. Thousands of refugees in Indonesia have spent years awaiting ...

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    Morwan Mohammad walks down an old hotel corridor on Batam Island in northwestern Indonesia before entering a 6-square-meter (64-square-foot) room that has been home to him and his growing family ...

  6. Galang Island - Wikipedia

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    Galang (Indonesian: Pulau Galang) is an island of 80 km 2 located 25 mi (40 km) southeast of Batam, [1] belonging to a group of three islands called Barelang (an abbreviation of Batam-Rempang-Galang). Part of the Riau Archipelago, Indonesia, Galang is located just south of Batam and Rempang which themselves are just south of Singapore and Johor.

  7. Terong Island - Wikipedia

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    Terong is the name given to an island in the city of Batam, [1] province of the Riau Islands, in the Asian country of Indonesia. [2] [3] It is famous for being one of the most densely populated islands of that nation and one of the 5 most densely populated in the world.