BACK IN TOUCH ECOTOURISM

Back In Touch Ecotourism is a nature resort located near Bukit Lawang, inside the buffer zone of Gunung Leuser National Park (TNGL) in the exact path of very famous Bahorok river with cubbing facilities(traditional rafting), began in the movement as the alternative tourists visiting foreign countries. Back In Touch Ecotourism located 2 km or about 45 minutes tracking from TNGL Office.

Back In Touch Ecotourism Bukit Lawang has prepared a range of facilities including accommodation with a natural concept, restaurant, tropical garden and a variety of flora and fauna which measures the entire region covered by TNGL the Dipterocarpaceae forest thick with several rivers and waterfalls. There are rare plants and typical of a giant umbrella leaf (Johannesteijsmannia altifrons), Raflesia (Rafflesia atjehensis and R. micropylora) and Rhizanthes zippelnii which is the largest flower with a diameter of 1.5 meters. In addition, there are unique plants and endangered species and are protected in national parks such as monkeys (Mecaca nemestrina), long-tailed monkey (Macaca fascicularis), gibbon (Symphalagus syndactylus), Sumatran tiger(Panthera tigris sumatrae), introspective / orangutan (Pongo abelii), goat forests (Capricornis sumatraensis), hornbill (Buceros bicornis), sambar deer (Cervus unicolor), and bobcat (Prionailurus bengalensis sumatrana).

Development is the centered of the consideration for the ecological balance and saving forests by the people. Back In Touch Ecotourism Bukit Lawang forests with large areas covering 30 ha, the most special features is the development area and camping ground tracking and facilities "West Cam", and development of research center with the concept of saving people's forest-oriented research core of flora and fauna breeding center orangutans in Bukit Lawang is just above the mouth of the river with a challenging track and a unique transport facilities (canopy pully transportation) at Back In Bukit Lawang Taouch Ecotourism and planning a variety of fauna Natural 'captivity in order to prevent displacement of the ecosystem of fauna habitat.

All of these programs aim to open a tourism-based economic isolation which has been hampered by inadequate facilities. Certainly the economic development of ecotourism is not simply in terms of business but to encourage the ability to survive the outskirts of the forest without forest exploitation. This idea also arose over concern for global warming or improvement of environmental quality in the world. Area of alternative development movement Back In Touch Ecotourism Bukit Lawang currently experiencing a lot of controversy, one of the debates that have not been equally understandable is the "old paradigm that says every economic development of forest area will cause environmental damage”. True, but the effect was applies only for a moment and not much to the environmental damage itself.

In the future, we must understand that when a moment of economic thinking patterns of forest edge communities from tourism to farming communities, or sellers of wood, we can imagine, let alone forests, national parks itself is slowly going out as the cause of the continued insistence Economy twisting. And we will continue to explain in one sentence is important as the philosophical basis and so we need to understand with "how could people want to preserve the forest edge of the forest, if they do not eat from the forest itself!", Then how do I prevent economic paradigm change in the community forest if the only way "of development ekomomi-based ecotourism attraction utilization, environmental educatoin with adequate facilities". We realize that this earth belong to us and its our duty, to realize the goal of this program we expect only one way to increase visitor tourism Ecotourism Touch Back In Bukit Lawang, this is where our collective contributions and to understand the forest and forest preserve. (Mr. Aca)