4 Natural World Heritage in Indonesia

1. Ujung Kulon National Park
The park is the first national park which was inaugurated in Indonesia is getting recognition from UNESCO in 1991. This national park is located in the westernmost part of Java Island. The park is also covering an area of Krakatoa and several surrounding small islands such as Pulau Handeuleum and Peucang Island has an area of about 1206 km2, in which 443 km2 of which is the sea. Actually, at first, this park is an agricultural area until eventually be destroyed and exhausted the population caused by the eruption of Krakatoa on August 27, 1883. These events led to this area back to forest.

Badak Jawa (Rhinoceros sondaicus)

Currently, the area used as a protection area for endangered Javan rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus) and other rare animals. Other rare animals are protected in addition to Java rhinoceros is the banteng (Bos javanicus javanicus), ajag (Cuon alpinus javanicus), surili (Presbytis Comata Comata), langur (Trachypithecus auratus auratus), deer (Cervus timorensis Russa), leopard (Panthera pardus) , cat stone (Prionailurus bengalensis javanensis), gibbons (Hylobates moloch), and giant clams (Tridacna gigas).

2. Komodo National Park

Komodo National Park received recognition from UNESCO in 1991. The park is located between Sumbawa and Flores island consists of three major islands, namely Pulau Komodo, Rinca, and Padar, and several other small islands.

This park was established in 1980 to protect the dragons and their habitat. Besides dragons, in this national park there are also approximately 277 other animal species which is a mix of animals coming from Asia and Australia. In addition, there are approximately 253 species of coral reefs in the waters of the famous as well as one of the best point in the world for diving. Today, this national park is also entered into one of the 7 wonders of the world's nomination.

3. Lorentz National Park
Lorentz National Park, West Papua was recognized by UNESCO in 1999. With a total area of 25,000 km2, this park is the largest in Southeast Asia. This area is also one of the three regions in the world with glaciers in the tropics. This park has an amazing biodiversity. The types of animals that have been identified in the park was approximately 630 species of birds and 123 species of mammals. Bird species characteristic of this national park is, two types of cassowary, four megapoda, 31 types of pigeon / doves, 30 species of parrots, 13 species of birds of shrimp, 29 species of birds honey, and 20 species endemic among long-tailed bird of paradise (Paradigalla caruneulata) and quail snow (Anurophasis monorthonyx). Animal mammals recorded include a long snout pig spines (Zaglossus bruijnii), pig snout short spines (Tachyglossus aculeatus), 4 types of possum, wallaby, wild cats, and tree kangaroos.

4. Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra (Gunung Leuser National Park, Kerinci Seblat National Park, South Bukit Barisan National Park)
Gunung Leuser National Park (TNGL) itself is one of nature conservation area in the administration of government lies in two provinces, namely Aceh and North Sumatra. TNGL includes native ecosystems from coast to high mountains covered by dense forest typical of tropical rain. In this TNGL region, there are rare plants and typical of a giant umbrella leaf (Johannesteijsmannia altifrons), Raflesia flower (Rafflesia atjehensis and R. micropylora) and Rhizanthes zippelnii which is the largest flower with a diameter of 1.5 meters. In addition, there is a unique plant or plant strangler fig.

Rafflesia flowers arnoldi in Kerinci Seblat National Park

Meanwhile, Kerinci Seblat national park is the largest national park in Sumatra. The park extends into four provinces, namely West Sumatra, Jambi, Bengkulu and South Sumatra. This park consists of the Bukit Barisan Mountains, which is the highest plateau in the Sumatra region, springs, hot springs, wing swift rivers, caves, waterfalls, waterfalls and the highest caldera lake in Southeast Asia, Mount Seven. This national park also has a diverse flora and fauna. About 4,000 species of plants grow in areas of national parks including the world's largest flower Rafflesia arnoldi, and the highest rates in the world, the Titan Arum. Fauna in the national park area comprising among others the Sumatran Tiger, Sumatran Rhinoceros, Sumatran Elephant, Clouded Tiger, Malay Tapir, Sun Bear and about 370 species of birds.

Sumatran Tiger

South Bukit Barisan National Park are included in the wilaya of administration of West Lampung and Tanggamus region, where both are part of Lampung Province. This park is very rich in biodiversity and is home to three species of the most endangered large mammal in the world: the Sumatran elephant (less than 2000 fish that survive today), Sumatran rhinoceros (total global population: 300 individuals and the less drastic amounts) and the Sumatran tiger (total global population of about 400 individuals). The park entrance is also in the Global 200 Ecoregions, the ranking of habitat land, freshwater and sea on earth the most conspicuous of the biological standpoint made by WWF. This park is highlighted as a priority area for Sumatran rhino conservation through the Asian Rhino and Elephant Action Strategy (Areas) from the WWF. In addition, IUCN, WCS and WWF has identified the South Bukit Barisan National Park as a Tiger Conservation Unit (Wikramanayake et al., 1997), the most important forest areas for conservation of tigers in the world. Finally, in 2002, UNESCO has chosen this area to be proposed as World Heritage Cluster Mountainous Areas and National Park Gunung Leuser and Kerinci Seblat.