Saturday, July 14, 2012

Bogor Botanical Garden (Kebun Raya Bogor)


Bogor Botanical Garden (Kebun Raya Bogor), is one of the million beautiful tourism objects in Indonesia that you have to visit. Kebun Raya Bogor is a huge botanical garden with at least about 15,000 collection of tree's and plants on the 87 hectare of field. Kebun Raya Bogor on its story has a few name, that are:
  • s'Lands Plantentuin
  • Syokubutzuer (zaman Pendudukan Jepang)
  • Botanical Garden of Buitenzorg
  • Botanical Garden of Indonesia
  • Kebun Gede
  • Kebun Jodoh  
Since years 1817 until now, those who became the Director of Kebun Raya Bogor, are shown below:
  • 1817-1822 : Caspar Georg Karl Reinwardt (1773-1854).
  • 1823-1826 : Carl Ludwig Blume (1789-1862).
  • 1830-1869 : Johannes Elias Teijsmann (1808-1882).
  • 1869-1880 : Rudolph Herman Christiaan Carel Scheffer (1844-1880).
  • 1880-1905 : Melchior Treub (1851-1910).
  • 1905-1918 : Jacob Christiaan Koningsberger
  • 1918-1932 : W.M. Docters van Leeuwen (1880-1960).
  • 1932-1943 : Hermann Ernst Wolff von Wülfing (1891-1945).
  • 1943-1945 : Nakai Takenoshin (1882-1952).
  • 1948-1951 : Dirk Fok van Slooten (1891-1953).
  • 1951-1959 : Kusnoto Setyodiwirjo
  • 1959-1969 : Soedjana Kassan
  • 1969-1981 : Didin Sastrapradja
  • 1981-1983 : Made Sri Prana
  • 1983-1987 : Usep Sutisna
  • 1987-1990 : Sampurno Kadarsan
  • 1990-1997 : Suhirman
  • 1997-2002 : Dedi Darnaedi
  • 2002-2008 : Irawati
  • 2008 - now : Mustaid Siregar
One of the interesting object in Kebun Raya Bogor is Bunga Bangkai, or known as Amorphophalus titanum.