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ASEAN Heritage Parks

Gunung Leuser National Park

The Park is part of the 2.5 million-hectare Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra, a World Heritage Site. It consists of steep, almost inaccessible mountainous terrain and encompasses smaller nature reserves. The Alas River runs through the Park and divides it into an eastern and western half. The Gunung Leuser National Park is known to be last place where orangutans, tigers, elephants, rhinoceros, and leopards lived together.

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Location
North Sumatra and Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam (Southeast Aceh, South Aceh, Aceh Singkil), Regency of Langkat, Indonesia
Area
1,092,692 hectares
Date declared as an AHP
29 November 1984
Other international designations
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Habitat types
Lowland evergreen dipterocarp forest; lower and upper montane forest; peat swamp; forest over limestone, sub-alpine meadows and heathlands; freshwater lakes and rivers; sulphur mineral pools.
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Unique Flora: World’s tallest flower: Amorphophallus titanium (when flowering), A. gigas (non-flowering phase); the world’s largest flower: Rafflesia (rafflesia arnoldi); Daunpayung raksasa (Johannesteijsmannia altifrons); Rhizanthes zippelnii.

Unique Fauna: Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis); Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris); Asian elephant (Elephas maximus); white breasted Thomas leaf monkey (Presbytis thomasi); siamang(Symphalangus syndactylus), Sumatran ground cuckoo (Carpacoccyx viridis); and white bellied sea eagle (Haliaetusleo cogaster).

 

Visitors can join in a variety of wildlife ecotourism activities like wildlife viewing, jungle trekking, river rafting, and caving. The Gunung Leuser National Park also offers adventures such as horseback riding, mountain climbing, kayaking, and canoeing.

For those who prefer to have a cultural experience, present are different ethnic groups who use natural resources such as wood, dammar, rattan, and fish for income.

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