The idea comes emergence from the colonial Dutch East Indies scholars who came to the
Java Island to create the
nature conservation area on the Ujung Kulon. Colonial scholars that most were the member Organization for Scientific Research in Netherlands Indies including being the botany expert, the fauna, geography, oceanography, and geology. Therefore, the discovery of this region was the gold land for the development of their science.
After anchoring in western part of
Java Island peninsula, they saw
beauty of nature—with various tropical crop kinds and animal—the specially of Java Island that had never been encountered by them beforehand. They carried out the expedition and the nature exploration on the Ujung Kulon with documented [carried out registrations] and collected everything that was regarded as foreign and important in their scientific treasury. Finally they think of to appoint this area—included the
Krakatau Mountain, Panaitan Island, Handeuleum Isalnd, and the Peucang—this Island as one of the research domains and the development of nature knowledge in Asia-Pacific.
After the formation of the
Republic of Indonesia Country [RI] in 1945, the
Ujung Kulon region that earlier lefted unfinished began to be paid again attention to. During 1958 the RI government maintained this region as the
nature reserve region, although being not yet wrought on seriously. The department of Forestry strove for him by proposing to UNESCO that the area of this national park was made as in the category of the forest high rain was in the plain expanded in Java. Finally, during 1992 UNESCO declared the
Ujung Kulon National Park as a site of the world nature reserve. Now, this national park was under the management of Directorate General Protection of the Forest and Conservation of Nature.
If being observed historically,
Ujung Kulon was the oldest national park in Indonesia. This garden was the pioneer of several national parks in Indonesia, like the
Bunaken National Park in North Sulawesi or the
Mount Leuser National Park region in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam and North Sumatra. Apart from his historic value, this region had the core zone measuring approximately 120.551 ha that was divided into 76,214 ha took the form of the mainland and 44.337 ha took the form of the ocean and the rocky area of coral. The core zone that functioned as the nature reserve and the wildlife reserve this had various expertise sorts, among them the diversity of the kind and the endangered species of the biota of Land Sea.
The endangered species that was meant on one of them is
Java Rhinoceros One [rhinoceros sondaicus]. This rare animal was one of the typical characteristics of the Ujung Kulon National Park with the level of the population around 50—60 the tail. The other habitat with the lower population [less than 10 tails] was in the Cat Tien National Park, Vietnam. The fauna population that including the category of this ancient animal currently is threatened extinct because of the action of the collectors of the rhinoceros horn, but tourists could be still witnessing the shape and their life here. In this region, gotten other several wild animals and rare, like Deer, Mancak, the Java Buffalo (the boss javanicus), the Primate [the monkey and the chimpanzee], the Wild Boar, the Civet Cat Lemur, the Monkey (presbytis cristata), Gibon Java (hylobates moloch), the Jackal (coun alpinus), the Stone Cat (felis bengalensis), the Tiger (panthera trigis), Suruli (presbity aygula), and 270 birds kinds.
The other wealth took the form of the sea biota; one of them was beauty of the coral reef that became the source of food and the protected place of thousands of salt-water fish kinds. Because of this, conservation against the coral reef became big attention of the national park manager. Message that wanted to be sent by the manager to tourists was destruction of the significant coral reef also the threat for the ecosystem of thousands of available fish in the sea zone in this national park region.
The other wealth that also became this region expertise was the growth of various tropical vegetation in the
Ujung Kulon National Park region the area of the protected forest that inside was gotten the mountain and the islands. This national park had more than 700 species of the crop where at least 57 kinds from the number of whole including in classification of the rare crop in Java, in fact in the world. Conservation of various crops continued to be maintained because influence lasting him was natural on the whole, like the life of the animal, the fertility of the land, beauty of the region, and clean him air from the influence of pollution of air. Tourists not will only explore and enjoy the region with this very impressive nature wealth, but could also study how appreciated nature.
If tourists from the Serang City, the capital of the Banten Province, only took up time around 2—3 the hour of the land trip by the personal vehicle or the bus that followed the inter-province road headed to the side of the Sumur Subdistrict, Pandeglang District (the east limit the national park). Or, if tourists were in the Tangerang City, the trip of the land route was needed approximately 4 hours used the bus or motor vehicles. An arrival there, tourists who will head the Peucang Island, Handeuleum Island, and the Panaitan Island must cross-sea with.
This region was supplemented with the network of the telecommunications, electricity, and clean water that were adequate for
tourists. The choice of accommodation from various models [the hotel, the motel, home stay, and cottage] with the rental price variation could be found in Tamanjaya [still in the area of the national park], the Peucang Island [by the tariff spent the night revolving Rp 150.000—Rp 500,000], and the Handeuleum Island. There was accommodation, certainly had also the restaurant. In this region, the restaurant or café served various choices of the typical
Indonesian Archipelago cooking menu and that was discerning international. Besides this, also was available the information service, the tourist guide, and small ship facilities [speed boat] for tourists that want to explored inter-island in this national park region.