Nusa Kambangan Island

Nusa Kambangan Island

To reach this island people have to cross by ferry from a special port in Cilacap for about five minutes. Port of this island ferry named Wijayapura.

Initially there were nine in Nusa Kambangan LP (for prisoners and political prisoners), but is still operating now only four, namely LP Stone (built 1925), LP Iron (built 1929), LP Kembang Kuning (in 1950), and LP Permisan (The oldest, built in 1908). The other five, namely Nirbaya, Karang Tengah, Limus Buntu, Karang Anyar, and Gleger has closed. Areas south of the island directly facing the beach Ocean Indonesia berkarangnya and big waves. Cilacap is facing north and surrounded by fishing villages along the mangrove forests, including Kampung Laut and Jojog.

Nusakambangan residents only convicts and LP employees and their families, under the supervision of the Ministry of Justice and Local Government Cilacap. And out of this island must have special permission to certain procedures. The children of employees in elementary school are available on the island. To continue to the advanced level (junior high, high school, or college), they have to go to school in Cilacap, or other cities in Java.

Kambangan island, the status as a nature reserve, but is often used for military training, is also a habitat for rare trees, but many have been felled in the wild. Currently most of the remaining plants shrubs, palm, and bushes. Pawlar timber that can only be found on this island many stolen because once dried, has a quality equivalent to the wood from Borneo.

Traditionally, the successor to the Sultanate of the Mataram dynasty ritual often done on this island and make it as a "forest ritual". In the western part of the island, in a cave located in the mangrove forest areas, there is a kind of inscription VOC era relic. At the east end, on top of the cliff, stands the lighthouse tower and the small fortress Cimiring Portuguese heritage. Various kinds of typical plants grown Javanese cultural rituals here. Nusa Kambangan was recorded as the last defense of the plants Wijayakusuma true. From this comes the name of this island: Nusa Kembangan, which means "island of flowers".

The main ferry harbor in the Port Sodong Nusakambangan, specifically for transportation purposes and staff families and inmates.

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