"Heart of Borneo" in Sentarum Lake National Park

Head Sentarum Lake National Park, Soewignyo, said in October 2009, will launch a promotional tour package Sentarum Lake National Park (TNDS) which has been designated as "Heart of Borneo", or the heart of Borneo.

"We focus on the promotion of ecological tourism around TNDS a very unique place to visit foreign tourists," said Soewignyo, in Pontianak.

He said the campaign plans TNDS tour package will attract tourist agents from Bali so that the target to attract tourists from Europe and the United States could materialize. "Many of activities of the surrounding TNDS interesting to be seen directly by tourists, such as landscapes, still unique, wildlife attractions, toman fish culture, traditional fishing, agriculture and various types of unique fauna and only in the lake," he said.

Soewignyo explained, there are some packages that will offer it to tourists, namely fishing, sow the seeds of kinds of fish. "For tourists who wish to bring back seeds kinds of fish, they have to buy two, only to be released and the other was taken to the country's tourists," he said.

He target, approximately 500 tourists in 2010 visited TNDS with an estimated turnover of about USD 5 billion. "Promotion is TNDS tour packages to support tourism visit to West Kalimantan 2010," he said.

TNDS been known as a representative of wetland ecosystem of the lake, freshwater swamp forest and tropical rain forest in Borneo. Seasonal lake in the TNDS lies in the Kapuas River basin, about 700 kilometers from the estuary to the South China Sea. The area was a water catchment area, their function as water for the river basin (DAS) Kapuas. Region located downstream of the Kapuas River is highly dependent on fluctuations in the amount of water deposited on the lake.

From the data the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Kalbar, TNDS have hundreds of species of fauna, including mammals (Mamal) as many as 147 species, nearly 64 percent of mammal found in Borneo in TNDS, as many as 31 species of reptile (reptile) crocodile one frog ( Crocodylus raninus) in Asia has been declared extinct since 500 years ago, the fauna of aves (birds) as many as 310, and as many as 265 species of fish, with the number of fish species in more than all the freshwater fish species in the entire European continent.

Kapuas Hulu District has an area of protected areas, national parks and protected forests around 1,626,868 hectares or 54.59 percent, forest cultivation area of about 764,543 hectares or 25.65 per cent and agricultural cultivation area rather than 588,481 hectares around the lake, or 19.75 percent, and the area around 17,925 hectares of the lake.

Head of Culture and Tourism of West Kalimantan Province, Kamaruzzaman said it could target to attract foreign tourists to the province as much as 26 thousand in the year 2009. "Our target is raised slightly from foreign tourists visit as many as 22 thousand per year. We are optimistic that foreign tourists to visit West Kalimantan increased. We must prepare for the visit of West Kalimantan tour 2010," he said.

This year West Kalimantan has been set up at least 30 activities and 36 leading attractions to lure foreign tourists through the program Visit Indonesia Year 2009.

Tourism activities were spread over 12 districts / cities (except district delopment-ed) with different time frame. Among other things, Cap Go Meh is celebrated beginning of each year, the culmination of events in the solar Equator monument Pontianak every March and September, Gawai Dayak, the Earth Festival and Cultural Festival Calcium carbide cannon on Happy Idul Fitri.

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