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Base on Minister of Forestry decree 26th February 1992 number 238/Kpts-II/1992, Blambangan peninsula with other famous name Alas Purwo National Park the area is considered still sacred or holy by people, and many caves are used to meditation. In side the area is a temple that by Hindus are used to going worship or having ceremony called Pagerwesi and it's usually done every 210 days.
Alas Pur (...)
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Baluran National Park as technical field authority unit under Directorate General of Forest Protection and Nature Conservation. Declared by Ministry of Forestry on May 12th 1984 number 196/Kpts-II/1984 and base on Director Geral of Forest Protection and Nature Conservation decided on December 1984 number 46/Kpts/VI-Sek/1984, the area pervades three major areas namely, Baluran National Park Banyuwa (...)
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The Berbak National Park comprises an area of 190.000 ha. of peat (110,000 ha) and freshwater swamp (60,000 ha). A smaller part consists of mangrove forest. The park is situated on the east coast of Sumatra in the province Jambi.
Nine months of the year large areas of the park are flooded. Therefor, the best time to visit the park is during the dry season from June till October. Berbak is ve (...)
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The Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park covers some 800 square kilometers in the centre of East Java. It is the largest volcanic region in the province and there stands Mt. Semeru, which rises 3676 meters above sea level. At its northern end is the spectacular Tengger Caldera, Java's largest, with its 10 km barren desert-like sea of sand. Within the caldera rise the deeply fissured volcanic cones o (...)
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Formerly two different nature reserves, Bukit Baka-Bukit Raya now is one national park of 180,000 ha. The park lies at the border of East and Central Kalimantan provinces and comprises a part of the Schwaner mountains. Bukit Raya (2278 m) is the highest mountain in the area.
In the park you'll find mountain forest and tropical rainforest. The traditional Ot Danum-Dayak still live in these fo (...)
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This national park comprises the southern part (365.000 ha.) of the Bukit Barisan Mountains. In the park several sorts of forest ecosystems occur. Seventy percent of the park is lowland rainforest. Smaller areas consist of beach forest, freshwater swamp forest, Nypa forest and hill and mountain forest. You'll also find lakes and swampy areas which are important for waterfowl. Several species of se (...)
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Situated 1300-1425 m high on the slopes of Mount Gede-Pangrango, Cibodas Botanic Garden contains beautiful mountain scenery with impressive views across the Cipanas valley of West Java. The Garden covers about 125 ha of undulating topography, with large grassy expanses, rocky coniferous areas, and valleys filled with tree ferns and waterfalls. Cibodas Botanic Garden is a popular recreational cente (...)
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Gede Pangrango National Park, together with four others, was established under a declaration made by the minister of Agriculture on 6th March, 1980. These first five park had the distinction of launching Indonesia's National Park Programme.
The park, covering 15,196 ha, evolved from several already existing conservation areas: Cibodas Nature Reseve (240 ha), gazetted in 1889, was the oldest r (...)
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The forests of the Mount Halimun Massif are the largest tract of true rain forest now remaining on Java. The wide altitudinal range contributes to great habitat diversity. The area's particular importance for wildlife protection was acknowledged on 26 February 1992, when Halimun National Park was established by Ministry of Forestry decree.
Originally, most of the 40,000 ha was classified as p (...)
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Gunung Leuser National Park is one of the biggest national parks in Indonesia (950,000 hectare). Actually, it's a collection of various nature reserves and forests: Nature Reserve Gunung Leuser, Nature Reserve Kappi, Nature Reserve Kluet, Sikundur Langkat Wildlife Reserve, Ketambe Research Station, Singkil Barat and Dolok Sembilin.
Most parts of the national park lie in the region Aceh Tengga (...)
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The Gunung Palung National Park lies in the province West Kalimantan and is 90,000 ha. The park comprises a large variety of habitats. Around the mountains Gunung Palung (1116 m) and Gunung Panti you'll find untouched mountain forests. At the coast there are beach and mangrove forests and in between peat and freshwater swamp forests and lowland rainforests are to be found. At Gabang Panti is a res (...)
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The Kerinci Seblat National Park comprises an area of 1.5 million ha in four provinces: West Sumatra, Jambi, Bengkulu and South Sumatra. A large part of the biggest national park of Sumatra lies above 400 m and is relatively cool. The park probably contains the largest contiguous population of the Sumatran Rhino, estimated at between 250 and 500 individuals.
Due to the fact that a large part (...)
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The almost 200,000 ha Kutai National Park lies in East Kalimantan province. The park has a stirring history.
In the early seventees an area of 300,000 ha was protected and named the Kutai Game Reserve. This protection did not prevent that one third of the forest was cut in subsequent years. Trying to prevent a further decline the Kutai National Park was established in 1982. However, great wo (...)
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Fifty kilometers south of Palu is the 231.000 hectare national park Lore Lindu. It is located along both sides of the border between the districts of Donggala and Poso, and concludes Gunung Nokilalaki and Gunung Tokasa, the entire Lindu plain with the big lake, the Besoa valley and the western parts of the Bada- and Napu valleys. In these three valleys you can find drums and statues (...)
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Siberut island recently received international attention as a priority conservation area, for the unique culture of the ethnic Mentawaian and endemicity of its biodiversity that need to be preserved. Although the island has plenty to offer, the potential has not been utilized fully especially for tourism.
Most visitors to the island are interested only in seeing the well promoted "culture" at (...)
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Tanjung Puting is one of the natural wonders of the world. You may not believe this after you have been there only one day or two days or three days, but after the fourth or fifth day something happens. You are captivated completely by the purity of the air, the openness of the night sky with the most remarkable view of the Milky Way, the magnificence and dignity of the gentle orangutans, the thun (...)
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The highest points in the park are the 620 metre Gunung Honje, the Gunung Payung Range peaks of up to 500 metres and Panaitan Island's Gunung Raksa at 320 metres. In the central section of the Peninsula is a large region of wilderness known as the Telanca Plateau which reaches 140 metres above sea level, however most consist of low rolling terrain seldom morre that 50 metres above sea-level.
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Loud noise goes through the jungle when a young elephant fights with thick cables which are attached to a wooden frame. The young, wild elephant is adopted in the first elephant training program in Indonesia, which shoud make him into a powerfull and easy animal. The elephant training centre (Pusat Lahitan Gajah) is located in Kandangsari, in National Park Way Kambas.
Way Kambas was named a N (...)
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