Bawean is an
island of
Indonesia located approximately 150 km north of
Surabaya in the
Java Sea, off the coast of
Java. It is administered by
Gresik Regency of
East Java province. It is approximately 15 km in diameter and is circumnavigated by a single narrow road. Bawean is dominated by an extinct volcano at its center that rises to 655 m above sea level. Its population as at the 2010 Census is about 70,000 people, but more than 26,000 of them (that is about 70% of the male population) were temporarily living outside, working in other parts of Indonesia,
Singapore and
Malaysia). As a result, females constituted about 77% of the actual population of the island, which is thus often referred to as
the Island of Women .