IPB campus to be tourist destination

IPB campus to be tourist destination

BOGOR: Around 200 hectares of the Bogor Institute of
Agriculture's (IPB) new campus in Darmaga subdistrict will be
converted into an "agro-edu" tourism park. Construction is
expected to be finished by 2005.

Dean of the university, Ahmad Ansori Mattjik, said on Tuesday
that the campus now has several blocks planted with, among other
trees, the Zalacca palm, or salak tree, durian trees, and
breadfruit trees. The park is also home to five deer.

"We hope the park can be an agricultural tourism attraction,
but we will maintain its educational function... without special
promotion, hundreds of people have already visited the park every
weekend now," Mattjik said. -- JP