Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park

Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park is representative of the Bukit Barisan mountain range consisting of vegetation types of mangrove forest, beach forest, tropical rain forest and up the mountains in Sumatra. Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park is a national park dedicated to protecting tropical rainforests of Sumatra island. along with its natural wealth. UNESCO made ​​the South Bukit Barisan National Park as a World Heritage. South Bukit Barisan declared a Wildlife Sanctuary in 1935 and became a National Park in 1982. At first the size of the park is an area of ​​356 800 hectares. But the area of ​​the park is currently calculated using GIS for approximately 324,000 hectares.

Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park is located in the southwestern region of the tip of Sumatra. Seventy percent of the park (249 552 hectares) are included in the administrative district of West Lampung and Tanggamus region, both of which are part of Lampung Province. Other parts of the park covers 74 822 hectares (23% of the overall area of ​​the park) and were Kaur region of the Bengkulu province. South Sumatra is also very important for garden borders overlap with provincial borders.

Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park

Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park has some lowland forests in Sumatra, the last time protected. Very rich in terms of biodiversity and is home to three species most endangered large mammals in the world: Sumatran elephant (less than 2,000 head of which survive today), Sumatran rhinoceros (entire global population: 300 individuals and drastically diminishing in number) and the Sumatran tiger (the entire global population of around 400 people).

Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park is included in the Global 200 Ecoregions, namely ranking terrestrial habitats, freshwater and sea on earth the most striking from a biological perspective created by the WWF. The park is highlighted as a priority area for Sumatran rhino conservation through the Asian Rhino and Elephant Action Strategy (AREAS) of WWF. In addition, IUCN, WCS and WWF have identified the South Bukit Barisan National Park as a Tiger Conservation Unit is the most important forest areas for conservation of tigers in the world. Finally, in 2002, UNESCO has chosen this area to be nominated as World Heritage Cluster Mountainous Areas together with Mount Leuser National Park and Kerinci Seblat.

Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park

Plant species in the park include Pidada (Sonneratia sp.), Palm (Nypa fruticans), sea pine (Casuarina equisetifolia), pandan (Pandanus sp.), Cempaka (Michelia champaka), meranti (Shorea sp.), Mersawa (Anisoptera curtisii), ramin (Gonystylus bancanus), Keruing (Dipterocarpus sp.), damar (Agathis sp.), rattan (Calamus sp.), and raflesia flower (Rafflesia arnoldi).

Plants that became the hallmark of this national park is a tall corpse flower (Amorphophallus decus-silvae), giant corpse flower (A. titanum) and giant orchid / cane (Grammatophylum speciosum). Tall tall corpse flower can reach more than 2 meters.

Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park is the habitat of bears (Helarctos malayanus malayanus), Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis sumatrensis), Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae), Sumatran elephant (Elephas maximus sumatranus), tapir (Tapirus indicus), agile gibbon (Hylobates agilis) , gibbon (H. syndactylus syndactylus), hoop (Presbytis melalophos fuscamurina), deer (Tragulus kanchil javanicus), and hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata).

Menjukut lake in the park directly adjacent to the sea off the Indian Ocean, which resembles a very large swimming pool and is located not far from the shoreline.

Some locations / attractions to be visited:

Tampang, Blubuk, Lake Menjukut, Way Sleman, Blimbing. Explore the forest, marine tourism, swimming, boating, observation of plants (raflesia, carrion flower), camping, and scour the river.

Sukaraja Atas. Exploring the woods, camping, animal / plant observation (corpse flower tall).
Suwoh. Boating, swimming, hot springs, exploring the woods and camping
Kubu Perahu. Exploring the forest, waterfalls, animal / plant observation and camping.
Cultural attractions outside the Park: Krakatau Festival in July in Bandar Lampung and Ranau Lake Festival in December in Oku-South Sumatra.

The best visiting season:  January - August each year.

How to reach the Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park: Telok Betong-Tanjung Karang-Agung City to use cars, Agung City-Tampang by motor boat about six hours, Agung City-Banjarnegoro-Sukaharja Atas / Suwoh use the car for about four hours, and Agung City-Kubu Perahu about seven hours by car.

Location: District Tanggamus, District West Lampung, Lampung province and District South Bengkulu, Bengkulu Province

Air temperature 20 ° - 28 ° C

Rainfall 1000-4000 mm / year

Altitude 0-1964 m. asl

The geographical position of 4 ° 33 '- 5 ° 57' S, 103 ° 23 '- 104 ° 43' E