Tourists flock Tanjung Puting park

Tourists flock Tanjung Puting park

PALANGKA RAYA, Central Kalimantan: Some 3,000 foreign tourists
visited Tanjung Puting National Park in the Kotawaringin
district, Central Kalimantan between January and November this
year, Antara reported yesterday.

"Tanjung Puting, one of the world's rehabilitation sites for
orangutans, is the province's most attractive tourism object,"
head of the provincial tourism service, Erens Patianom, said here
Saturday.

The tourists spent an average of three days in Tanjung Puting,
he said.

According to him, more forest areas in the province will be
turned into tourist attractions in 1997. Erens said his office
was planning to hold a Borneo Festival next year to attract more
people to the area. (swe)