Riau Island Indonesia

Riau is a province in Indonesia. Riau Islands province borders Vietnam and Cambodia in the north, Malaysia and West Kalimantan Province on the east, Bangka Belitung Jambi and in the south, Singapore, Malaysia, and Riau Province in the west.

The broad area is mostly ocean, and only about 5% of the land. The capital of Riau Islands province is located in Tanjung Pinang. This province lies in the path of traffic and transport sea air on the most strategic and international level, and at the mouth of the world market that has a market opportunity.

Riau Islands province is a gateway from the world tour after the second island of Bali. Object tourism in the Province of Riau Islands are beach and sea tourism located in the coastal districts and cities. Melur beach, Abang island and Nongsa beach in the city of Batam, Belawan beach in Karimun district, Lagoi beach, Tanjung Berakit beach, Trikora beach, Bintan Leisure Park in Bintan district. Natuna district popular with its marine tourism activity such as snorkeling.

In addition to coastal and marine tourism, Riau Islands province also has other items such as heritage tourism, historic cemetery, traditional dances and special events area. In the city of Tanjung Pinang, there are Penyengat island as historic island because of there is a historic mosque and the tomb of King Haji Fisabililah and Raja Ali Haji who is both a national hero.

Art is one of the Riau Malay culture elements of the most prominent, covering art of literature, art and dance, sound and music, also theater art. Riau art literature consists of writing (in the form of minstrelsy, saga, historical, customs and others) and ligan literature such as pantun (maxim, proverb, maxim, proverb, parable, and others), mantra folklore, koba , kayat and long song. Most famous literature is Gurindam Dua Belas that are the works of Raja Ali Haji.