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Laiwangi Wanggameti National Park
[27 Jul 2011 | Comments Off | 0 views]

Laiwangi Wanggameti National Park is geographically consists of hills, valleys, and wavy regions, located in East Sumba, East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia.
History

In the age of the Dutch colonial, this forest is already declared as protected area. The status of this forest then setbased on the Decree Hydrologisch Reserve Regent Regional …

Papuma, The Secret Beach
[10 Jul 2011 | Comments Off | 1 views]

Papuma is a beautiful beach adorned with neat stones bordering ther soil and the white sand along the beach. Combined with the beautiful panorama and the soft sand, it’s the perfect place for sunbathing. There is also the forest with a variety of animals such as lizards, chicken, deer, armadillos, …

Mountain Leuser, Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra
[19 Jun 2011 | Comments Off | 29 views]

Mountain Leuser National Park is located at Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam and North Sumatera, Indonesia. It’s perfect example of coastal forest ecosystems, and tropical lowland and mountain rain forest.

The rock types consist of volcanic rocks, limestone, sedimentary rocks, plutons, and alluvium, the terrain is dominated by a complex of brown podzolic, …

Palung Mountain National Park
[18 Jun 2011 | Comments Off | 4 views]

Palung Mountain National Park is one of nature conservation area which has high biodiversity value, and various types of ecosystems including mangrove forests, swamp forests, peat swamp, freshwater swamp forests, tropical pamah forest, and montane forests that are always covered with fog .
This national park is the only tropical forest …

Siberut Islands, The Asian Galapagos
[17 Jun 2011 | Comments Off | 6 views]

Siberut Island is one of the Mentawai islands in West Sumatra that have high value of ecosystem. The island is located about 100-155 km from the western city of Padang, separated by the Mentawai Strait, 60% of the area is covered by primary dipterocarp forest, mixed primary forest, swamps, coastal …

Lorentz National Park, Papua
[16 Jun 2011 | Comments Off | 16 views]

Lorentz National Park is a complete example and representative of ecosystem and biodiversity in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. This area is also one of the three regions in the world that have glaciers in the tropics.

Stretching from the snow-covered mountain peak (5030 meters above sea level), out …

Manusela National Park, Maluku
[13 Jun 2011 | Comments Off | 24 views]

Manusela National Park is a perfect representative type of swamp forest ecosystem, coastal, lowland rain forest and mountain rain forest in Maluku. Vegetation types found in this national park is the mangrove, beach , swamp forest, river bank, pamah tropical rain forest, mountain forest, and sub-alpine forest.
Some plant species in …

Tanjung Puting, Orangutan’s Heaven
[17 Apr 2011 | Comments Off | 16 views]

Indonesia’s Tanjung Puting is a national park located on Kalimantan or Borneo in the province of Central Kalimantan. The park is famously known as the biggest orangutan conservation in Indonesia or maybe in the world. The park is composed of about 400,000 hectares of peat swamp forest, heath forest, dryland …

Muara Angke, Really in Jakarta?
[15 Feb 2011 | Comments Off | 41 views]

Muara Angke Wildlife Reservation is a conservation area in the mangrove forest on the north coast of Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia. The reservation was originally established by Dutch colonial on June 17, 1939, with initial area of 15.04 acres. The are was later expanded and in 1960′s has about …

Meru Betiri National Park
[30 Dec 2010 | Comments Off | 153 views]

Meru Betiri National Park is a representation of mangrove ecosystem, swamp forest and lowland rain forest in Java, Indonesia.

This national park is the habitat of rare plants, such as Raflesia flower (Rafflesia zollingeriana), and several other plant species like mangrove (Rhizophora sp.), Api-api (Avicennia sp.), Hibiscus (Hibiscus tiliaceus), Nyamplung …

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