About Batanta Scuba Center & Dugong Retreat. 

Formerly Kriss Iba (Papuan for "Big Sea Almond" tree) Homestay, and opened since 2017, we started a Scuba Dive Center here in 2025. 

Our family is from Arefi island and we built the bungalows together, with some local friends, to make a small business for us in Batanta, Raja Ampat. Natan, our father has been guiding for resorts in Raja Ampat since 1998 and wanted a more tranquil and relaxed lifestyle. Still loving to scuba dive, he decided to return home to the family to start a dive center too. 

Mama tends around the garden & takes care of all of us here. She keeps everyone here well fed and tummies full and happy.

We wanted also to provide our visitors a more comfortable-than-homestay experience in Raja Ampat, so our Batanta Scuba Center & Dugong Retreat was born.