epa10802644 Passengers on board of Bahtera Nusantara 01 ferry ship while sailing to another island at Serasan Island port, Natuna, Indonesia 16 August 2023. Ferries are the main transportation link between the outermost islands throughout Indonesia as an archipelagic country and used by people who live in the outer islands of Indonesia. Indonesia's Geospatial Information Agency (BIG) inaugurated and standardized the names of 17,024 islands in Indonesia, higher than the results of the 2021 Central Statistics Agency (BPS) survey. EPA/HOTLI SIMANJUNTAK
