The area
7,303.16 hectares under the 2014 collective designation. About 48.93% of that is water.
Representative. Photo: Stepgun / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The park
A tourism park, not a national park. The difference shows.
Official designation, area, zoning and management — the facts other pages about Riung tend to guess at.
In short
Taman Wisata Alam Laut 17 Pulau is a 7,303.16-hectare protected area on the north coast of Flores, managed by Balai Besar KSDA NTT under a 2014 ministerial decree.
- 7,303.16 ha, roughly 48.93% of it water.
- Designated by SK No. 3911/MENHUT-VII/KUH/2014.
- A different agency from Komodo National Park.
The record
Three facts worth citing correctly
Each of these has a source. Where one does not, we say so.
The island count
Sources list twenty to twenty-four islands and reefs. "Seventeen" is understood locally as a reference to 17 August.
Photo: Komodo Luxury.
The manager
Balai Besar KSDA NTT, under the forestry ministry — not the Komodo National Park authority.
Photo: Jakub Hałun / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0.
Why the category matters
Lighter protection, thinner resourcing
A Taman Wisata Alam Laut is a tourism-oriented conservation category. Komodo is a national park with its own authority, its own budget and its own published tariff.
That gap explains most of what frustrates researchers here: fewer surveys, no tariff sheet, and monitoring that depends on a handful of camera traps.
Frequently asked questions
Ready to put dates on it?
Riung boats are arranged locally, at the pier. For the Komodo leg or a full Flores itinerary, the reservations desk answers on WhatsApp.