bogor botany garden

Bogor Botanical Gardens or the Bogor Botanical Garden is a large botanical garden located in the city of Bogor , Indonesia . The extent of 87 hectares and has 15,000 types of trees and plant collections . Currently Bogor Botanical Gardens as a tourist crowded , especially on Saturday and Sunday . Around the Bogor Botanical Gardens spread scientific centers of the Bogor-based , Bogor Zoological Museum , and PUSTAKA.Kebun Raya Bogor was originally part of the ' samida ' ( artificial forests or parks artificial ) that there has been at least in the reign of Maharaja Sri Baduga ( King Siliwangi , 1474-1513) of the Kingdom of Sunda , as stated in the inscription Batutulis . Artificial forest was intended for the purposes of protecting the environment as a place to nurture the seeds of rare wood . In addition it is also made samida samida similar on the border with Bogor Cianjur ( Forest Ciung Wanara ) . This forest is then allowed after submission of the Kingdom of Sunda Banten Sultanate , until the Governor -General van der Capellen build a vacation home in one of the corners in the mid 18th century . In the early 1800s the Governor -General Thomas Stamford Raffles , who inhabit the Bogor Palace and had a great interest in botany , interested developed Bogor Palace yard into a beautiful garden . With the help of botanists , W. Kent, who helped build the Kew Garden in London , Raffles courtyard conjure a classic English-style garden . This is the beginning of the Bogor Botanical Garden in its current form . Olivia Raffles monument In 1814 Olivia Raffles ( wife of Governor -General Thomas Stamford Raffles ) died of illness and was buried in Batavia . For preservation , her monuments established in the Bogor Botanical Gardens . The idea stems from the establishment of the Botanical Garden Abner biologist who wrote a letter to the Governor -General GAGPh . van der Capellen . In the letter revealed his desire to ask for a piece of land that will be useful plant gardens , where teacher education , and the collection of plants for the development of other gardens . Prof . Karl Georg Caspar Reinwardt is one German national who moved to the Netherlands and became a scientist botany and chemistry . He was promoted to minister of agriculture, arts , and sciences in Java and beyond . He is interested in investigating the various plants used for treatment . He decided to collect all of these plants in a botanical garden in the city of Bogor , which was then called Buitenzorg ( from the Dutch word meaning " not to worry" ) . Reinwardt also a pioneer in the field of making herbarium . He became known as a founder of the Bogor-based . In May 18, 1817 , the Governor -General Godert Alexander Gerard Philip van der Capellen formally established the Bogor Botanical Gardens as' s Lands Plantentuin te Buitenzorg . Its establishment was initiated by first plugging in the swing hoe Padjadjaran earth as a sign that the construction of the development phase , the implementation is led by Reinwardt himself , assisted by James Hooper and W. Kent ( from the famous Kew Gardens in Richmond , England ) . Approximately 47 hectares of land around the Palace of Bogor and former first samida clear land for botanical gardens . Reinwardt became its first director from 1817 until 1822. Use this opportunity to collect plants and seeds from other parts of the archipelago . Bogor immediately became the center of the development of agriculture and horticulture in Indonesia. At that time an estimated 900 live plants grown in the garden . In 1822 Reinwardt back to the Netherlands and was replaced by Dr . Carl Ludwig Blume's take inventory of the collection of plants that grow in the garden . He also compiled the first catalog of the garden which were recorded as many as 912 species ( species ) of plants . Implementation of the development of this garden has been postponed due to lack of funds but then again pioneered by Johannes Elias Teysmann ( 1831 ) , an expert bailey Governor -General Johannes van den Bosch . With the assistance of Karl Justus Hasskarl , he made arrangements with the collection of crops grouped according to the tribes ( families