Amazing Sempu Island Malang, East Java

Amazing Sempu Island Malang, East Java

Sempu Island is a small island located in the south of the island of Java is administratively located in the village of Tambakrejo, District Sumbermanjing Wetan, Malang, East Java. The island is covered with tropical trees is the 877 hectare nature reserve is managed by the Natural Resources Conservation Center East Java (BBKSDA) and the Ministry of Forestry of Indonesia. This place is officially recognized as a nature reserve since 1928 during the reign of the Dutch East Indies.

Geographically, the island Sempu located between 112 ° 40 '45 "- 112 ° 42' 45" east longitude and 8 ° 27 '24' - 8 ° 24 '54 "latitude south. The island has an area of ​​approximately 877 hectares, bordering the Strait Sempu (Blue Spring) and surrounded Indonesian Ocean in the south, east and west.

Sempu island has different types of ecosystems ranging from coastal forests, mangrove forests, and lowland tropical forests that dominate the whole island. Vegetation found on the island Sempu include bendo (Artocarpus elasticus), quarterly (Terminalia), WADANG (Pterocarpus javanicus), Ketapang (Terminalia catappa), hibiscus sea (Hibiscus tiliaceus), pandan (Pandanus tectorius), Mangrove (Rhizophora mucronata and Rhizophora apiculata), and more. Interestingly, said Sempu name taken from the name of one tree species found on the island, but the tree is almost hard to find nowadays.