The Raja Ampat Islands, which are famous for their underwater natural beauty, are located at the northwestern tip of Southwest Papua Province, have an area of 43,000 km2, and consist of four main islands, namely Waigeo, Batanta, Salawati, and Misool, in addition to several other small islands such as Ayau, Love, Wayag and Kofiau.
Raja Ampat has the largest concentration of hard corals and the largest numbers of reef fish in the world. Raja Ampat is in the Papua ecoregion and is ranked at the top for marine biodiversity conservation priorities in Indonesia. Apart from that, Raja Ampat is also located at the heart of the Coral Triangle and is the center of the world's richest tropical marine biodiversity.
Since 2002, YKAN has assisted the Indonesian government in developing and managing the Kofiau-Boo and Misool Marine Protected Areas/MPA (more than 800 thousand hectares). Our most recent program was to support the establishment of the North Misool MPA (300 thousand hectares) in November 2023.
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