Nusakambangan, The Beautiful Jungle

(made by US Army Map Service)

Nusakambangan is the most beautiful and the only last one jungle in low level in indonesia. Its name can be devided into 2 word, Nusa and Kambangan.
Nusa means island, ancient javanese language. And Kambangan means float, something ON water or not drowning thing.

Nusakambangan known as 'Alcatraz of Indonesia'. The Island was made into prison during dutch period. The colonial goverment built a hig security prison on the isolated island to exile criminals and political dissidents.
Nowdays there are four prison and one Super Maximum Security (SMS),

1. Kembang kuning (yellow flower) prison
2. Besi (iron) prison
3. Batu (rock) prison
4. Permisan prison
5. SMS prison

Besides, Nusakambangan has so many beauty. It has White Sand, Beauty Beach, and several Cave like Quin Cave (Gua Ratu).

More than 71 different bird species, 14 reptile species and various mammal species are found in the island. Twenty-three bird species are in classified as protected, including Kuntul Karang (Egretta sacra), Black Egret (Ciconia episcopus), Bangau Tongtong (Leptoptilos javanicus), white-bellied sea eagle (Haliaeetus leucogaster), elang bondol (Haliastur indus), and elang bido (Spilornis cheela). Several other protected mammal species include the black-spotted leopard (Panthera pardus), Javan Muntjac (Muntiacus muntjak) and Javan mouse deer (Tragulus javanicus). Four of six endemic primates in Java, namely Javan Lutung (Trachypithecus auratus), the crab-eating Macaque (Macaca fascicularis), Javan Surili (Presbytis comata), and kukang (Nyctibus sp.), have been reported to live on the island.

From the mid-1990s, the island was intermittently promoted by local authorities as a tourist destination, primarily for its caves, beaches, and unusual wildlife that is extinct on Java

According to the Cilacap Tourism Office, Nusakambangan was opened as a tourist destination following an agreement between the Central Java Governor and Ministry of Justice in 1996. The Cilacap government then invested some Rp 1.7 billion in preparations for the opening up of the island, most of which was used on the construction of tourist-related infrastructure.

A special agency (BPOW) was also established to manage tourism on the island, with the Nusakambangan Prison warden made head of the agency and Cilacap Tourism Office chief as the deputy. ^[15]

One of the main cultural events is Sedekah Laut (sea sacrifice), which is held by the Surakarta Sultanate every new year in the Javanese calendar.

Adopted : Wikipedia, Self experience