The Pelabuhan Ratu area, a favorite weekend surfing destination for expatriates and a growing number of Indonesian surfers based in Jakarta, is the most crowded of West Java's surfing grounds due to sheer ease of accessibility.



Most of the surf pounded beaches in the Pelabuhan Ratu resort area-also called Samudra Beach are just that: pure beach pound, featuring vicious riptides and big walls of water with nowhere to go. Most surfers skip this non-directional stuff and head a few kilometers due west to the sleepy fishing and rice-growing village known as Cimaja, or Cimaja Beach.

The Cimaja break, a right that rises off a rocky reef, is reached by walking about 300 meters from the main road through beachfront sawah (rice paddies). This spot is consistently surf able because it has a solid and angular rock bottom perfectly attuned to south and southwest swells rising out of the Indian Ocean. Its rights peel off in front of a cobble-stone and boulder strewn beach that clatters like a series of giant castanets every time a wave set rolls in.

Here down below are some information for surfing at Cimaja.

Spot information for surfing at Cimaja (globalsurfer.com):

* Type of break: pointbreak
* Type of wave: occasionally barreling wave
* Direction: right hand
* Bottom: rock
* Average lenght of ride: 100-200 meter lenght
* Suitable for: intermediate level


Detailed information:

* Crowd level: normal crowd
* Best tide: mid
* Ideal board size: 6'2-6'4 Thruster
* Ideal wind direction: east
* Wavesize & wetsuit:
* Spring - Summer - Autumn - Winter
* Good: 4' - 6' - Overhead: 6'- 8' - Ok : 2'- 4' - Ok : 2'- 4'
* Boardshorts - Boardshorts - Boardshorts - Boardshorts