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Welcome to the Orangutan Information Centre's website. We are a non-profit organization sponsored by the Sumatran Orangutan Society who is dedicated to the conservation of Sumatran orangutans and their habitat.

We promote public awareness of the plight and value of this critically endangered species and its unique habitat through grassroots educational programs and empower local communities living near the last remaining orangutan habitat to work towards a more sustainable future for their forests.

We welcome any involvement in our efforts to create an environment committed to long-term conservation of orangutan habitat through environmental education.

Please feel free to surf our website and contact us if you require any more information about orangutans or their conservation status and what you can do to help!

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U.S. to Forgive Indonesian Debt in Exchange for Conservation Plan

JAKARTA, Indonesia — The United States will sign an agreement Tuesday to forgive nearly $30 million in Indonesian debt in return for the large Southeast Asian country agreeing to protect forests on Sumatra Island, which is home to endangered tigers, elephants, rhinos and orangutan.

The deal is the largest so-called debt-for-nature swap the U.S. government has organized so far under the U.S. Tropical Forest Conservation Act and its first such pact with Indonesia, which has one of the fastest deforestation rates in the world, losing an area of forest the size of Switzerland annually.

Conservation International, the U.S.-based conservancy group, helped organize the deal, and has contributed $1 million to help reduce the debt. “This is a huge boost for people and wildlife of Sumatra, and demonstrates a forward-looking policy on the part of the U.S. government,” said Jatna Supriatna, vice president of Conservation International Indonesia.

Under the deal, Indonesia will pay the nearly $30 million into a trust over eight years instead of repaying it to the U.S. government. The trust will issue grants for critical forest conservation work in 13 forest areas in Sumatra.

The U.S. in the past has organized smaller debt-for-nature swaps with countries like Guatemala, Botswana, the Philippines and Peru. Under the Tropical Forest Conservation Act of 1998, developing nations with a significant tropical forest, a democratically-elected government, and an economic reform agenda, are eligible for debt forgiveness in return for conservation efforts.

Indonesia’s massive deforestation rates makes it the world’s third-largest emitter of carbon dioxide behind the United States and China due to the forest fires set each year on peat lands to clear forests. Deforestation has picked up in the past decade due to a break down in law and order, but President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who is standing for re-election next month, has made clamping down on illegal logging a priority.

Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124633204676171767.html

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About Us

OIC is dedicated to the conservation of Sumatran orangutans and their habitat. We promote public awareness of the plight and the value of this critically endangered species and its unique habitat through grassroots educational programmes and empower local communities living near the last remaining orangutan habitat to work towards a more sustainable future for their forests. Read More

Projects

OIC consists of three main divisions: Conservation, Education, and the OranguVan Mobile Awareness Unit (MAU), all of which are supported by the Information Development and Production division. However, as all of our work runs on the same theme: working to save the Sumatran orangutan and its rainforest ecosystem from further degradation - often our programs (and people!) work inter-connectedly. Read More

Sumatran Orangutan Ecotourism Developement Programme

New Film about Guidelines for Visitors to the Gunung Leuser National Park.

A film on guidelines for visitors to the Gunung Leuser National Park has been produced by the Orangutan Information Centre (OIC) in conjunction with Source of Indonesia (SOI). This film, which runs for 15 minutes, will be available online soon and will be screened to all visitors wishing to attend an orangutan feeding session in Bukit Lawang or to go trekking in the national park. The film is an instructional film which summarises the key guidelines that must be respected by visitors and guides in order to reduce any negative effects on orangutans’ natural behaviour and also prevent disease transmission between orangutan and humans as well as vice versa.

Sumatran Orangutan Health Protocols & Guidelines for Visitors of Bukit Lawang Eco-tourism Site

As you trek through the forest at Bukit Lawang, it is important to remember that you are entering the habitat of one of the rarest great ape species on Earth.

The population of Sumatran orangutans at Bukit Lawang is from two different origins:

  1. Ex-captive individuals who have been rehabilitated and released in the forest. Captive and rehabilitation experiences often result in released rehabilitant orangutans not fearing humans and even expecting to interact with them.
  2. Wild individuals, some of whom have become habitua ted to human presence, with the remaining being naïve (i.e. not used to people’s presence in their forest habitat).

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Guidelines for Visitors of Bukit Lawang Part 1

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