Sangiran to be Science Tourism Spot

The Sragen Regency Government will transform the archaeological site of the region Sangiran to be a center of science and education.

Since 2002, the region has been carrying out improvement and developing many facilities to make the pre-historic site a top tourism spot.

It is estimated that in 2008 the Sangiran Scientific Tourism Site will be ready. “The budget need is still around Rp200 billion,” Hari Kuncoro, Head of the Tourism Service Sragen Regency, told Tempo, Friday (27/7).

The United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) set up Sangiran as a world heritage site number 593. Since this site was founded more than a century ago, 13,813 fossils of human, animal, plant, sea animal and pre-historic human remains have been dug up.

Hari said that as an archaeological site, Sangiran has positive qualities and uniqueness because not all regions or even countries have a site where so much prehistoric human traces can be found.