Sorong is a chartered coastal city in the eastern Indonesia

Indonesia

Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

n province of West Papua. Its only land borders are with Sorong Regency

Sorong Regency

Sorong Regency is a regency of West Papua, Indonesia. Its capital is Aimas, it also surrounds Sorong City. . Sorong has an airport, Sorong Airport which also serves the Regency.-Statistics:...

. It is the gateway to Indonesia's Raja Ampat Islands

Raja Ampat Islands

Located off the northwest tip of Bird's Head Peninsula on the island of New Guinea, in Indonesia's West Papua province, Raja Ampat, or the Four Kings, is an archipelago comprising over 1,500 small islands, cays and shoals surrounding the four main islands of Misool, Salawati, Batanta and Waigeo,...

, species rich coral reef

Coral reef

Coral reefs are underwater structures made from calcium carbonate secreted by corals. Coral reefs are colonies of tiny living animals found in marine waters that contain few nutrients. Most coral reefs are built from stony corals, which in turn consist of polyps that cluster in groups. The polyps...

 islands in an area considered the heart of the world's coral reef biodiversity

Biodiversity

Biodiversity is the degree of variation of life forms within a given ecosystem, biome, or an entire planet. Biodiversity is a measure of the health of ecosystems. Biodiversity is in part a function of climate. In terrestrial habitats, tropical regions are typically rich whereas polar regions...

. It also the logistics hub for Indonesia's thriving eastern oil and gas frontier. Sorong has experienced exponential growth in the last five years, and further growth is anticipated as Sorong becomes linked by road to other frontier towns in Papua's Bird's Head Peninsula

Bird's Head Peninsula

The Bird's Head Peninsula or Doberai Peninsula is a large peninsula that makes up the northwest portion of the Province of West Papua, Indonesia.-Location and geography:...

. The city has a population of 125,535.

Container port

A container port will be built in Sorong with an annual container handling capacity of 500,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) and cost Rp.800 billion ($93.6 million). Construction will be initilised at early 2012 and expect to finish in the middle of 2013.