Dozens Of Climbers Without Permit Were Secured By Mount Gede Pangrango Officers

Mount Gede/PHOTO VIA BETWEEN

CIANJUR - The Gunung Gede Pangrango National Park Center (TNGGP) in Cianjur, West Java, has arrested dozens of illegal climbers who climbing without permission through the forbidden route on the pretext of a limited climbing quota.

Head of the Cianjur National Park 1 Climbing Division, Lana Sari, said that 13 illegal climbers who broke through the hiking trail were arrested because they could not show a climbing permit that was carried out online.

"The climb has been reopened since August 19, 2023, but dozens of people were caught climbing without permission, so officers were escorted to the entrance in the Cibodas and Gunung Putri areas," he said as quoted by ANTARA, Tuesday, August 22.

His party detailed that of the thirteen illegal climbers, nine people climbed through the Cibodas entrance and four others through the entrance to Mount Putri, so that the officers were secured and underwent examination.

The illegal climber argued that he was forced to climb without permission due to the limited climbing quota every day, so they looked for other routes so that they could still climb to Mount Gede.

"Officers had asked for information from dozens of illegal climbers who said they were forced to climb without permission because the quota was limited and they had already reached the entrance and were not served to register directly," he said.

Dozens of illegal climbers are subject to sanctions for not being able to climb mountains throughout Indonesia until a time limit that cannot be determined because the actions they take can endanger themselves and others.

The TNGGP Center asked all climbers who plan to do the climbing first to register online because direct registration on the spot cannot be served as an effort to anticipate the accumulation of climbers in national parks.

"We will continue to tighten supervision involving local residents and national park volunteers, including intensifying patrols of national park security officers to anticipate the same thing," he said.