The west coast of the island of Java

Here  the west coast of the island of Java, several beaches in the western part of Java island.

 

Indonesia, Pull Back, Komodo island became "Seven Wonders"

Jakarta (ANTARA) 15,08,2011 - The Indonesian government through the Ministry of Culture and Tourism withdraw the Komodo National Park (KNP) as a finalist in the selection of the seven natural wonders of the new or "New seven wonders of nature" (N7WN).

"This decision was taken because the organizer of the campaign the New 7 Wonders (N7W) Foundation has committed unprofessional, inconsistent, and not transparent, and do not have the credibility that can be accounted for," said Minister of Culture and Tourism (Minister of Culture), Wacik, in Jakarta, Monday.
According to the minister when the decision was officially announced in a press conference, although TNK-election campaign resigned from the new seven natural wonders of the New 7 Wonders Foundation insisted, but the KNP remains a "world heritage" or a Unesco world heritage recognized in 1991.
In August 2008, Kemenbudpar the Official Supporting Committee (OSC) / Lead Agency to support the KNP as one of the seven natural wonders of the new selection is done through online voting".  

Ministry of culture and tourism has conducted a series of campaign activities "online" and "offline" both at home and abroad to promote and support the KNP and have produced results on July 21, 2009 at KNP was chosen as one of 28 finalists N7WN campaign after setting aside 440 of 220 nominations countries.
On his way up the polemic, N7W foundation in early December 2010 had agreed to Indonesia in Jakarta this case as the Host Organisation (Official Host) declaration of seven wonders of the natural world.
The committee then requires the Government of Indonesia to pay a "license fee" as the host of the declaration of 10 million U.S. dollars and prepared 35 million U.S. dollars as the cost of organizing the event declaration.
Though new Ministry of culture and tourism simply expressed an interest to host but did not sign any agreement or registering a proposal "bidding" as required official N7W foundation in the Official New7Wonders of documents Tender Bidding Host Worldwide.
The request was later rejected by Ministry of culture and tourism as judged unrealistic, but as a rejection reaction, the foundation N7W in late December 2010 threatened to eliminate the KNP as a finalist N7W.
According to Wacik, two things really are not related because of the existence of the KNP as a finalist campaigns and bidding N7WN N7W foundation to make Indonesia as the host of a two different things and should have no relation at all.
On February 7, 2011, the foundation decided to retain N7W KNP as a finalist but did removal action Ministry of culture and tourism role as OSC.
The decision was considered to be one-sided and unfair because it is not based on the obvious reasons, besides the N7W not revoke or cancel the agreement Standard Participating Agreement which is the only official document that has been signed at the beginning of a campaign that states Ministry of culture and tourism the OSC of the KNP on the campaign N7WN.
Ministry of culture and tourism then appointed lawyer Todung Mulya Lubis to confront the issue.
Todung argued, Ministry of culture and tourism never do the "wan-achievement" in the Standard Participating Agreement has been agreed.
"We've sent a letter summons was answered by the` legal `consult them in London. We reply to the letter and until today there is no response from them," he said.
He added that the foundation acts as an OSC N7W remove Ministry of culture and tourism violate the principle of universal law.
"No agreement is canceled unilaterally because there is no violation that occurred here," he said.

Campaign Stops

Ministry of culture and tourism discover some facts about the foundation N7W a very commercial-oriented, although the self-proclaimed non-profit foundation. Besides the implementation of the campaign N7WN not consistent and transparent.
As an international organization, it assess the foundation's very odd when it was discovered that the foundation does not have a domicile N7W / office a clear and managed by only a handful of people (probably only a virtual office) but want to deal with millions of dollars of transactions.
"The world will still recognize the dragons as` the one and only real dragon in the world 'and this fact will not be replaced. For that we remain committed to developing and promoting the KNP as a conservation area and an international tourism destination in Indonesia. Through branding ` Komodo The Real Wonder of the World ', we will promote the KNP to the whole world, "said Wacik.
He said he had acted as "lead agency" for the KNP on the campaign N7WN determined not to proceed with the foundation N7W campaign.
Director General of Marketing Ministry of culture and tourism Nirwandar states KNP as a finalist for three years N7W has heavily promoted to foreign countries.
"KNP has been known to the world community and visits to destinations that are also rapidly increasing," Sapta said.
In the 2007 campaign in which the initial program performed a new number of foreign tourists visiting as many as 16,000 people, in 2008 and 2009 increased to respectively 21,000 and 36,000 foreign tourists.
While in 2010 the number jumped to 45,000 foreign tourists.

Ujung Kulon National Park

Ujung Kulon National Park is representative of tropical rain forest ecosystem remaining lowland and the largest in West Java, now Banten, and is an ideal habitat for the survival of endangered Javan rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus) and other rare animals. There are three types of ecosystems in national parks is the aquatic ecosystem of sea, marsh ecosystems, and terrestrial ecosystems.
Diversity of plants and animals in Ujung Kulon National Park began to be known by the researchers, botanists Netherlands and the UK since 1820.

Approximately 700 species of plants is well protected and 57 of them rare species such as merbau (Intsia bijuga), palahlar (Dipterocarpus haseltii), Bungur (Lagerstroemia speciosa), luminous (Pterospermum diversifolium), ki rain (Engelhardia serrata) and various species of orchid .

Initially Ujung Kulon is an agricultural area in some time until finally destroyed and depleted its entire population when Krakatoa erupted on August 27, 1883 which ultimately convert the area back to forest.

Animals in Ujung Kulon National Park consists of 35 species of mammals, 5 species of primates, 59 species of reptiles, 22 species of amphibians, 240 species of birds, 72 species of insects, 142 species of fish and 33 species of coral. Endangered and protected animals other than Java rhinoceros is the banteng (Bos javanicus javanicus), ajag (Cuon alpinus javanicus), Javan (Presbytis Comata Comata), langur (Trachypithecus auratus auratus), deer (Cervus russa timorensis), leopard (Panthera pardus), cats rock (Prionailurus javanensis bengalensis), gibbon (Hylobates moloch), and giant clam (Tridacna gigas).

Ujung Kulon National Park is an interesting natural attractions, the beauty and uniqueness of various forms of natural phenomena in the form of a jeramnya rivers, waterfalls, white sand beaches, hot springs, marine parks and cultural heritage / history (Ganesha statue, Mount Panaitan Mercury Island). They are all natural charm of a very interesting place to visit and hard to find elsewhere.
Species of interest in Ujung Kulon National Park, both living in the sea or rivers, among others, butterfly fish, clown, angel, lion, parrot, glodok and chopsticks. Fish and fish glodok chopsticks are two types of fish are very strange and unique that glodok fish have the ability to climb trees, while the fish chopsticks have the ability to spray water over a height of more than one meter to shoot prey (insects) in the i the leaves of the branches protrude above the water surface.

Ujung Kulon National Park with Krakatau Nature Reserve is a national asset, and has been designated as a World Natural Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1991.

To improve the management of Ujung Kulon National Park as a World Natural Heritage Site, UNESCO has provided funding support and technical assistance.

Communities living around the national park is famous for its tribal Bantam Debus art that is not subject to sharps injuries and heat-resistant flame. Communities that still retain the customs, traditions, and culture of their ancestors.

Inside the park, there are places sacred to the interests of different religious beliefs. The most famous place as a pilgrimage destination is the cave Biosciences Sirah, which is located on the western tip of peninsula of Ujung Kulon.