Tanjung Puting National Park

Tanjung Puting National Park is a large protected area in Kotawaringin Barat Regency, Central Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, covering about 415,040 hectares of peat swamp, lowland tropical forest and coastal mangroves along the Sekonyer River. Established as a game reserve in the 1930s and designated a national park in 1982, it is internationally known as a centre for orangutan conservation and rehabilitation, notably at Camp Leakey, and protects proboscis monkeys, gibbons and diverse birdlife.

Visitors access the park by chartered klotok riverboat from Kumai port, cruising the Sekonyer River through peat swamp forest, mangroves and lowland rainforest. The experience centres on guided visits to orangutan feeding stations such as Tanjung Harapan, Pondok Tanggui and Camp Leakey, where semi-wild and rehabilitated orangutans can be observed. Surroundings include dense forest, river channels, observation platforms and ranger stations, with opportunities to see proboscis monkeys, gibbons, macaques, crocodiles and hornbills.