Lorentz National Park was a national park that was located in the province of Papua/Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Lorentz National Park had the most complete ecosystem for the biological diversity in South-East Asia and the Pacific. With the width that reached 25,000 km², Lorentz National Park became the biggest national park in South-East Asia.

Apart from having the complete biological diversity, Lorentz National Park had the uniqueness with the existence of the glacier in Jayawijaya Peak and the river that disappeared several kilometers into the land in the Balliem Valley. Lorentz National Park becomes one of the three regions in the world that had the glacier in the tropical area. Stretched from the peak of the Jayawijaya Mountain that was covered snow as far as waters of the coastal coast with the limit of Arafura Sea. Lorentz National Park had the Montana Ecology, Sub-Montana, Vegetation Alpin, Sub-Alpin, the wetland and the plain. UNESCO maintained the Lorentz National Park as the site of the “World Nature Inheritance”

34 types of vegetation that was gotten in the Lorentz National Park including the coast of coral sand, the mountainous forest, the peat forest, the forest of the river bank and the meadow. Totalling 630 kinds of living birds in the Lorentz National Park, including 31 kinds of the Dove, 13 Kingfisher kinds, 29 Sweet Birds kinds, 4 Megapoda, 30 Cockatoo kinds, 2 Cassowary kinds and 123 mammalian kinds including the Tree Kangaroo, Walabi, the Jungle Cat, Kuskus and the Long Nose Pig.

This national park had the high biological diversity and was the protection region that was most effective in the world because of its characteristics that were unique and beauty of its nature that enchanted. Moreover, Lorentz National Park had the diversity of the astonishing culture and was the ethnic group's residence place of Asmat, Amungme, Dani Barat/West Dani and several other ethnic groups.

The Asmat ethnic group was identical to the forest or the tree because of skills in carving his statue that has been famous. According to the Ethnic Group's Asmat belief, the tree trunk symbolized the human body, the branches symbolized human arms, and the fruit symbolized the head of humankind. The Asmat ethnic group also believed that the tree was the place of the life of their ancestors's souls. Apart from the forest or the tree, this belief was valid also for the river and the mountain.

Therefore, tourists if visiting to Lorentz National Park could do many things. Including the nature tour such as the forest exploration, followed the river, observation of various fauna kinds even the research. Moreover tourists could also enjoy the tour of the local ethnic group's culture.

To visit to Lorentz National Park, tourists must arrive in the Timika City first. If want to visit the northern part of the Lorentz National Park region, tourists could use the pioneer's flight and to the south could use the ship through the Sawa Erma Port, afterwards the trip was followeded by the footpath to several location points. (hen)