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Curug Cipamingkis offers tourists fresh forest atmosphere
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The beauty of nature: Visitors enjoy a clean and fresh forest atmosphere at Curug Cipamingkis. (JP/Theresia Sufa)
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tate-owned forestry firm Perhutani is involving local communities in the management of Curug Cipamingkis, a tourist site in Wargajaya village, Sukamakmur district, Bogor regency, West Java.
Located in the eastern Bogor regency, Curug Cipamingkis offers camping facilities and tree houses, from which visitors can enjoy a clean and fresh forest atmosphere. There is also a beautiful curug (waterfall).
Yeti Supriati, the spokesperson for Perhutani’s Bogor forest management unit, said the management of the Curug Cipamingkis forest, located on a 16.5 hectare plot of of state forest, involved a government-people partnership scheme on forest use.
“Through this partnership, local communities have participated in conserving the forest,” said Yeti recently.
Curug Cipamingkis draws around 500 visitors every week. Local and foreign tourists who wish to visit the forest can reach the site via three routes.
Departing from Cibinong, visitors need to travel around 40 kilometers to reach Sukamakmur via Sentul and Babakan Madang, or around 50 km if they depart from the Bekasi-Jonggol highway. The route will be shorter, around 17.5 km, if they go to Sukamakmur from Cianjur via Cipanas, Hanjawar and Loji.
The entrance fee is Rp 16,500 (US$1.24) per person for local tourists and Rp 30,000 for foreigners. (ebf)
