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Doom Island is one of the Dutch heritage. Doom Island is presenting the Dutch skill in managing the city. Although the outer circumference of the island is only about 4.5 kilometers in length, the Dutch set up the former city government center Onderafdeling (subdivision), Raja Ampat it neatly.

On the island there is a football field as well as new grocery store Sorong, which in 1950 is famous for its delicious ice cream. Even in the small island there is a building called "Fun House", which is where Dutch soldiers unwind by swimming, playing tennis, or dancing. If you hear the testimony of one of the elders Doom Island, Abdul Halik Warwei (88) "I still remember, when I was a small city of Sorong still dark, while the Doom Island ablaze with electric lights. Slide People call this island because the island of glittering stars at night. Another testimony of a citizen born in Doom Island is how the Dutch government set up the island of New Guinea, which became the center of warehousing and trading port of Sorong in the 1950's.

Once the feet of the passenger motor boat track Doom Island, dozens of paddle rickshaw directly offer services. Without bargaining, some passengers, the mothers who go shopping in the city of Sorong, the direct ride tricycles.

Most of the others, young people or their fathers without luggage, choose to walk. There is no great distance in the Doom Island is small. To circumnavigate the island you can simply walk for 45 minutes.

However, rickshaw ride in the Doom Island to be unique because the city of Sorong - rickshaws can only be found on the island. There are no rickshaws in other islands in Islands District Sorong. In Sorong were no rickshaws. Although mileage Sorong - Doom Island by boat only 15 minutes long, in fact there never paddle rickshaw who tried their luck in the city of Sorong.

Although the complexity of building a new home began to appear, the remnants of sight range of housing blocks are arranged neatly seen along the small streets in the Doom Island. The scene was like a scene in the old town of Jakarta (Batavia) or Surabaya. Views of a typical Dutch-style town planning.