surfEXPLORE Indonesia - West Papua

Most surfers know Indonesia as one of, if not the single best surfing country in the world and they are generally talking about the waves on the Indian Ocean side of the country.

From April to October, from Simeulue island in north Sumatra to Timor in the southeast, Indian Ocean Indonesia has hundreds of high-quality surfing locations receiving swell after swell from the southern Indian Ocean and hosting thousands of overseas surfing visitors per year.

There is a whole different Indonesia coastline, mostly unknown and unsurfed, of hundreds of islands on the Pacific side of Indonesia, over 6 000 kilometers to the east of Jakarta with the opposite swell season of November to March.