The byline on every page of Sorong Papua is the Sorong Papua Editorial Desk. We keep it at desk level deliberately. Whoever is closest to a subject drafts it, someone else reads it back, and the name that carries the result is the desk’s.
The range of the work
The pages fall into a few groups: diving and snorkelling trips, how itineraries are put together, what things actually cost and side-by-side comparisons. Each stays with whoever last worked on it, which is also who answers when a reader writes in about it.
Sources, and the absence of them
Fees, permits and timetables in Indonesia are revised more often than most visitors expect. When a figure here has been checked against the office that sets it, we say where it came from. When it has not, we mark it unconfirmed and leave it that way until it can be checked.
Claims we do not make
No one here is presented as an expert, a licence holder or a veteran of anything, since we have no records to show for such descriptions. What we can offer is background reading. Decisions that turn on your own case belong with the body that will decide them.
If you find a figure here that no longer holds, write in and we will update the page and say when. You can reach the desk through our contact page.