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Moro Tengah

Moro Tengah is a small island in the Moro archipelago, part of Karimun Regency in Indonesia's Riau Islands province. It sits within a maze of mangrove-fringed landmasses in the eastern Karimun islands, a short hop from the bustling fishing town of Moro, and only some forty nautical miles south of Singapore. The name itself appears on nineteenth-century Dutch charts, which marked the cluster as Moro Laut, Moro Tengah and Moro Darat. There is no resort or ticketed attraction to point at here; the island's appeal is the wider Moro world around it—quiet white-sand beaches, clear shallow water, working fishing villages and the slow rhythms of a community that still looks across the strait to Batam and Karimun for its daily supplies. For a certain kind of traveller, that unhurried maritime fringe, long described as beautiful 'unknown islands' just beyond Singapore, is precisely the point.