{"id":2348,"date":"2019-07-22T00:46:57","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T00:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecolodgesindonesia.com\/?p=2348"},"modified":"2019-11-05T02:32:38","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T02:32:38","slug":"tanjung-puting-national-park-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecolodgesindonesia.com\/tanjung-puting-national-park-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanjung Puting National Park Significant Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tanjung Puting National Park has a long history before it becomes a national park.<\/h2>\n

Tanjung Puting National Park is\u00a0located in the southeast part of\u00a0West Kotawaringin Regency<\/a>\u00a0in the Indonesian province of\u00a0Central Kalimantan<\/a>\u00a0(Central\u00a0Borneo<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The nearest main town is the capital of the Regency,\u00a0Pangkalan Bun<\/a>. The park is well known for its orangutan<\/a> conservation. It is composed of 416,040 hectares of dryland dipterocarp forest, peat swampforest<\/a>,\u00a0heath forest<\/a>, mangrove and coastal beach forest, and\u00a0secondary forest<\/a>. The public can access the park by\u00a0speedboat along the Kumai River<\/a>\u00a0and then the\u00a0Sekonyer River<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0Camp Leakey. The trip takes about 1.5 hours in total.<\/p>\n

Four research centers have been established within the park for the study and rehabilitation of orangutans and other primates. One of them is Camp Leakey, which is founded in 1971 with assistance from the Leakey Foundation, was the first of these centers. It was here where Dr. Birute Galdikas<\/a>\u00a0began her career studying the behavior of rescued and orphaned orangutans that were reintroduced into the wild.<\/p>\n

Her research was highlighted as the cover article of National Geographic in October 1975. Dr. Galdikas is now considered one of the world\u2019s leading experts on orangutan behaviour and is the founder and president of the\u00a0Orangutan Foundation International<\/a> and also our honorary shareholder member at our Ecolodges Indonesia<\/a> and Rimba Orangutan Ecolodge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

1936: \u00a0 Declared as a game reserve by the then Dutch colonial administration.<\/p>\n

1937: \u00a0 Adjacent area of forest covering 205,000 ha declared as Sampit Wildlife Reserve.
\nThe two areas were then known as Kota Waringin-Sampit Reserve, which later became Tanjung Puting Wildlife Reserve (Galdikas & Shapiro 1994, Galdikas & Brindamour 1978).<\/p>\n

1945:\u00a0\u00a0 Indonesian independence from Dutch colonial rule.
\n\u2018\u2026 national economic and political turmoil prevented the Government of Indonesia from dealing with the issues of conservation until the end of the 1970s when significant economic development commenced, and the Government received substantial global assistance for sustainable development\u2019 (Soehartono &\u00a0 Mardiastuti, 2013). [1]<\/p>\n

1971: \u00a0 Primatologist, Birut\u0117 Galdikas and her then-husband, Rod Brindamour, arrived in
\nTanjung Puting to study orangutan in its natural habitat. Camp Leaky Research Centre established.<\/p>\n

1981: \u00a0 Declared a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO\u2019s Man and the Biosphere Program.<\/p>\n

1982: \u00a0 Third World National Parks Congress was held in Bali, providing the momentum for Indonesia to launch a long term plan to develop its national park system (now there are 50 national parks across Indonesia).<\/p>\n

1984:\u00a0 Declared a National Park by Ministry of Forestry of Indonesia [2]<\/p>\n

1985:\u00a0 Establishment of a Management Unit for Tanjung Puting National Park.<\/p>\n

1991:\u00a0\u00a0 International Conference on the Great Apes of the World in Jakarta, followed by a field excursion to Tanjung Putting National Park \u2013 stimulated the start of a local ecotourism industry with the opening of Rimba Orangutan Ecolodge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The inscription of International Conference on the Great Apes 1991 at the restaurant of Rimba Orangutan Ecolodge<\/p>\n

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The inscription of International Conference on the Great Apes 1991 at the restaurant of Rimba Orangutan Ecolodge<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

1996:\u00a0 Ministry of Forestry extends the Park area to 415,040 ha, adding 90,000 ha previously logged under a commercial concession.<\/p>\n

1999:\u00a0\u00a0 National NGO, Telapak Indonesia<\/a> and its partner Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) report that illegal timber activities had destroyed almost 40% of Tanjung Puting National Park.<\/p>\n

2000: \u00a0 Era of replacing the system of centralized government and development planning with decentralization programs \u2013 local governments ill-prepared to provide effective governance.<\/p>\n

2008: \u00a0 Most illegal logging activities stopped.<\/p>\n

2015:\u00a0\u00a0 Major forest fires destroy some 25% of Tanjung Puting National Park<\/p>\n

2016:\u00a0\u00a0 Rimba Orangutan Ecolodge<\/a> (Ecolodges Indonesia<\/a>) sponsors representatives from Tanjung Puting National Park and Friends of the Forest Foundation to Australia for forest fire training.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"Tanjung
Rimba Orangutan Ecolodge<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Contributor: Steve Noakes<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/a>[1]<\/sup><\/a> Soehartono, T. and Mardiastuti, A. (2013) The voice of national parks in Kalimantan Indonesia. Searching the Truth of Thirty Year National Park Development. Nata Samastha Foundation, Jakarta.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/a>[2]<\/sup><\/a> Ministerial Decree No. SK 096\/Kpts\u2013II\/84 on 12 May 1984.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tanjung Puting National Park has a long history before it becomes a national park. Tanjung Puting National Park is\u00a0located in the southeast part of\u00a0West Kotawaringin Regency\u00a0in the Indonesian province of\u00a0Central Kalimantan\u00a0(Central\u00a0Borneo). The nearest main town is the capital of the Regency,\u00a0Pangkalan Bun. The park is well known for its orangutan conservation. 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