Komodo Indonesian Fauna Museum and Reptile Park
 The main building of Komodo Indonesian Fauna Museum | |
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| Established | 20 April 1978 |
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| Location | Taman Mini Indonesia Indah, Jakarta, Indonesia |
| Type | Zoological |
| Website | Museum Fauna Indonesia Komodo & Taman Reptil |
Komodo Indonesian Fauna Museum and Reptile Park (Template:Lang-id), is a zoological museum located within the Taman Mini Indonesia Indah (TMII) compound, in East Jakarta, Indonesia.[1] The museum specialized on presenting various collection of the fauna of Indonesia, especially endemic animals of Indonesia, to provides information and education on Indonesian animal diversity.[2] The Komodo Fauna Museum is located on southeast corner of Taman Mini Indonesia Indah cultural park.
The museum is popularly nicknamed as "Komodo museum" after the design of the main building that took the shape of a giant komodo dragon, the largest lizard endemic to Indonesian island of Komodo.[3][2]
History
The fauna museum was built as an integral part of Taman Mini Indonesia Indah, to showcase the fauna diversity that inhabit the Indonesian archipelago. The construction started on 1 October 1975 and finished in 1 July 1976, and officially inaugurated by President Suharto on 20 April 1978.[2] Initially the museum displayed the collection of taxidermed animals endemic and native to Indonesia, such as Sumatran tiger, babirusa, komodo dragon, and bird of paradise. The museum also displayed the diorama of several ecosystems of animal habitats of Indonesian archipelago, including rainforest, mangrove swamp, and savanna.
On 2000, the park surrounding the museum was transformed into a reptile park, with a collection of living reptiles and amphibians; including numbers of venomous snakes, phytons, crocodiles and komodo dragon.[3]
On 2015, the museum undergone major make-over and restoration. The renovation took place between August 2015 to February 2016.[4] Initially the museum displayed a diverse collection of preserved animals, including butterflies, fish, birds, mammals and reptiles in their natural environment. The types of protected animals shown include Sumatran tigers, komodo dragons, turtle, butterfly, and others. However, after the restoration, the collection is focused only on reptiles and amphibian, with main focus on Varanus komodoensis as the museum's main attraction. The new Komodo museum was opened to public on April 2016.
Collection
The museum displays taxidermed animals and skeletons, also diorama of several animal habitats of Indonesian archipelago. By 2016, the museum focused only on displaying the collection of taxidermed body and skeletons of reptiles and amphibians of Indonesian archipelago.
The park surrounding the museum main building is the site of a reptile park, a mini zoo with collection of more than 67 species of reptiles.[4] There are numbers of terrariums containing reptiles, mainly snakes and lizards, and also several large enclosures containing large reptiles; such as saltwater crocodile, python, and komodo dragon. There is also a petting zoo, where visitors could touch, pet and took photographs with reptiles, such as tortoise, iguana and non-venomous snakes.[2]
Turtle exhibits
- Red-eared slider
- Malaysian giant turtle
- Pig-nosed turtle
- Common snapping turtle
- Alligator snapping turtle
Python exhibits
Crocodile exhibits
Monitor lizard exhibits
Lizard exhibits
Pancing buaya
For a small fee, Visitors can feed a pair of False gharial with a whole chicken.
Giant turtle exhibit
Komodo dragon exhibit
The original exhibit now housed a pair of large Saltwater crocodile, as part of the Pancing Buaya attraction
Reptile Cave
- Yellow anaconda
- Kuhl's Flying Gecko
- Gold-ringed cat snake
- Javan spitting cobra
- Australian green tree frog
- Viper boa
- Halmahera giant gecko
- Boa constrictor
- Malayan pit viper
- Peach-throated monitor
- Roughneck monitor
- Olive python
Taman Sentuh
In this exhibit, visitors can take a photo with several type of snakes, tortoises and lizards, as well as a baby Saltwater crocodile
- Green iguana
- Argentine black and white tegu
- Gold tegu
- Burmese python
- Reticulated python
- Forsten's tortoise
- Asian forest tortoise
Chameleon exhibit
East Indonesian reptile exhibits
References
- ^ Nugraha, Muhammad Catur. "Ternyata Komodo Juga Ada di Jakarta". detikTravel (in Indonesian). Retrieved 2017-11-13.
- ^ a b c d "Museum Fauna Indonesia Komodo & Taman Reptil :: Taman Mini Indonesia Indah". www.tamanmini.com (in Indonesian). Retrieved 2017-11-13.
- ^ a b Media, Kompas Cyber. "Kenalan dengan Reptil-reptil Museum Komodo - Kompas.com". KOMPAS.com (in Indonesian). Retrieved 2017-11-13.
- ^ a b "Bertambah, Koleksi Satwa di Museum Fauna TMII". SINDOnews.com (in Indonesian). Retrieved 2017-11-13.
External links
- (in Indonesian) TMII Official website
- (in Indonesian) Museum Fauna Indonesia Komodo & Taman Reptil