Protecting Nature and Improving Welfare
The government is now more eager than ever to develop and promote its tourism village program. Among the 74,954 villages spread across Indonesia, 1,902 villages gifted with cultural riches and arresting natural landscapes offer tremendous potentials for tourism. Among them is the remote Merabu village in East Kalimantan, endowed with karst hills and prehistoric handprints hidden in caves. There is also the Bahitom village in Central Kalimantan, where villagers are now working to develop an organic farming program for food self-sufficiency and agrotourism. Over the past several years, residents of both villages have been striving to improve local economies through tourism. Tempo English reports.
Tempo
June 4, 2018
From Swallow's Nests To Karst Hills
Residents of the Merabu village are making the most of their natural landscape. They are trying to advance tourism in their area.
THE protected forest in Merabu village, Berau Regency, East Kalimantan, can rightly be considered a hidden natural gem: it is home to a variety of endemic plants guarded by magnificent karst hills, prehistoric artifacts sequestered in caves, and has an exotic underground river.
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