About Bintan Island

Bintan Island is an island in the Riau archipelago of Indonesia.

 It is part of the Riau Islands province, the capital of which, Tanjung  Pinang, lies in the island's southand is the island's main community.Bintan's land area is 2,402.28 square kilometres (927.53 sq mi) (total area is 60,057 square kilometres (23,188 sq mi) including 96% sea area).Its  administrative region is designated  the Bintan Island Regency,one of the six administrative regions of the Riau Islands province. The city of Tanjung Pinang is an autonomous area within the Bintan Island.
Singapore, the closest major city, is a 45-50 minute trip by motorised catamaran across the Singapore Strait from Bintan Resort area in the northwest of the island. The island has beaches with beach-front International  hotels and resorts; the most prominent of these beaches is the Bintan Resorts set over an area of 300 hectares (740 acres) of tropical environment. The archipelago of the Riau islands is right opposite to this resort across the South China Sea.

Indonesia is promoting Bintan island as the next best tourist destination after Bali.

The Indonesia government for the past few years have upgraded and improved the infrastructure of Bintan Island to meet the future demands such as expressway road around Bintan Island to shorten the travel time and distance from one point to another point, water reservoir, new international airport, new international ferry terminal at Berakit, electrical power station and others facilities. 
A part from Bintan Resorts or Lagoi beach resorts the government had open and promoting the Eastern part of Bintan Island which have beautiful sandy beach as the new gateway for tourist  destination and attraction.
A new governor offices and other governments official now located at Dompak Island will give a one stop government center where a new stadium, golf courses and other major facilities will be built.