Timika

Timika is the largest city in Central Papua province in Papua, with 142,000 residents in 2020. It has become a gateway to one of the largest gold mines on the planet, the Grasberg mine.

Understand

Get in

  • 🌍 Mozes Kilangin Airport (TIM  IATA). Airfast Indonesia from Makassar, Denpasar, Sentani, Manado; Garuda Indonesia from Denpasar, Sentani, Makassar, Nabire; Susi Air from Alama, Beoga, Jila, Jita, Mapanduma, Paro, Tsinga, Wangbe; Sriwijaya Air from Jayapura, Makassar, Sorong.

Get around

By ride-hailing app

There is an online ride-hailing app, Mi-jek (Mimika ojek online).

See

  • 🌍 Three Kings Cathedral.
  • 🌍 Grand Mosque of Timika (Masjid Raya Babussalam Timika), Kwamki.
  • 🌍 Grasberg. Owned by PT Freeport Indonesia. It is one of the largest gold mines on earth.
  • 🌍 Kuala Kencana. The first city in Indonesia to use underground utilities for power lines, and communications, as well as distribution of clean water and centralized sewage treatment.
  • 🌍 Keakwa Beach (Pantai Keakwa).
  • 🌍 Kyura River (Kali Kyura).
  • 🌍 Timuka Beach (Pantai Timuka), Atuka.
  • Traditional villages around Tembagapura, through Mulu Airport, one of the most remote and highest airports in Indonesia.

Do

Mangrove trekking

  • 🌍 Ekowisata Mangrove Poumako, Pomako, East Mimika.

Buy

  • 🌍 Pasar Gorong-Gorong, Jl. Port Site, Koperapoka. Buy fresh seafood such as Timika crab (kepiting karaka), eeltail catfish, shrimp, and so on.

Eat

Try traditional local cuisine sagu tindis/amamaihi made by the Kamoro tribe. Also, the Timika crab, karaka is served in local seafood restaurants.

  • 🌍 Resto Jangkar, Nawaripi, Mimika Baru, +62 812 942 78118. 10:00-22:00. A seafood restaurant.

Drink

Coffee shops

  • 🌍 Rumah Kopi Amungme Gold, Kwamki, Mimika Baru. Try kopi Amungme, an organic coffee grown by Amungme tribe in Nemangkawi Mountains.

Sleep

Connect

The telephone area code of Timika is 0901.

Go next

North

  • Fly to Sugapa, Intan Jaya Regency or Ilaga, Puncak Regency to reach the peak of one of the World Seven Summits, Puncak Jaya.

Southeast

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