This is the list of the national parks of Indonesia. Of the 54

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, 6 are

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s, 9 are part of the

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and 5 are

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s of international importance under the

Ramsar convention The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat is an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of Ramsar sites (wetlands). It is also known as the Convention on Wetlands. It ...

. A total of 9 parks are largely

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. Around 9% of the Indonesia surface are national parks (less than the 25% of Germany or the 33% of France). The first group of five

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n national parks were established in 1980. This number increased constantly reaching 41 in 2003. In a major expansion in 2004, nine more new national parks were created, raising the total number to 50.WWF:Indonesia establishes 1.3 million hectares of Protected Areas
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was added in 2015."Mount Tambora National Park Transformed Into New Ecotourism Destination"
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'', 15 April 2015 3 more National Parks in Sumatra, Sulawesi, and Bangka Island were added in 2016.

Java

Pemandangan Merbabu dari Kota Salatiga (1)

Kalimantan

Win the Orangutang in Tanjung Puting National Park 2005

Lesser Sunda Islands

Maluku and Papua

Sulawesi

Sumatra

References

External links

Official list of Indonesian National Parks
{{Indonesia topics National parks of Indonesia, List of

Natural history of Indonesia Cultural Properties of Indonesia

National parks A national park is a natural park in use for conservation purposes, created and protected by national governments. Often it is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state declares or owns. Although individua ...