Climbing To Mount Gede Pangrango Closed Until March 31, 2024

DOK ANTARA

CIANJUR - Gunung Gede Pangrango National Park Center (TNGGP) Cianjur, West Java, closed the climb for the next three months from December 31, 2023 to March 31, 2024, in order to restore the ecosystem.

Head of the TNGGP Center, Sapto Aji Prabowo, said that every year climbing to TNGGP is routinely closed due to extreme weather and ecosystem recovery in national parks.

"The climb will be closed for the next three months starting December 31. In order to avoid illegal climbing, we have alerted dozens of officers at a number of points in anticipation," he said as quoted by ANTARA, Wednesday, December 20.

During the closure, he stressed, there was no climbing that could be done from the official route in the Cianjur area such as Gunung Putri and the Cibodas entrance and the entrance from Salabintana-Sukabumi because a number of officers were alerted.

Including coordinating with the community around the foot of the mountain to assist in surveillance and immediately report if there are illegal climbers who force themselves to enter the national park because they will be subject to strict sanctions to criminal sanctions.

"We hope that no one violates it because all official channels and unofficial channels will be closely guarded by officers assisted by local residents, in order to avoid illegal climbers entering the national park area during the closure," he said.

Meanwhile, prospective climbers who have registered online for December 29 and 30, can still climb but are required to have paid no later than December 28, 2023.

"We ask all climbers to obey all rules and prohibitions during climbing, not to do anything that can damage the ecosystem in national parks," he said.