Pulau Lembeh is an island off the north east coast of Sulawesi in Indonesia, near the city of Bitung. Lembeh Island is 25km long and 2km wide. Lembeh Island is separated from the mainland of Sulawesi by a narrow stretch of water known as the Lembeh Strait.
Most of the people living in Lembeh reside in the west, since Bitung is on the west side of the island. Choumeizai has visited one of the villages on the west of Lembeh named Pintu Kota, which means ‘Threshold to the city’.
The village has electricity and tap water, although it is quite modernized, the villagers are still simple and friendly, they will smile at tourists.
Most of the villagers work in the dive resorts around the village, that’s why their living standards are much better than those who are engaged in fishery.
Christianity was ‘shipped’ by the Dutch colonists 400 years ago and has been the main religion of Pintu Kota since then, so in the church there is a boatlike altar.
On the way back to the resort, Choumeizai finds that there is so much garbage around the seashore, although the villagers turn a blind eye on it, Choumeizai feel so guilty.
