The Bogor Botanical Gardens as an Open Space

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Bogor Botanical Gardens is one of the natural attractions in the city of Bogor. To reach this attraction is easy, because it is supported by adequate transportation facilities, so that the visitors do not find it difficult to get to these attractions.

Bogor Botanical Gardens or the Bogor Botanical Garden is a large botanical garden located in the city of Bogor, Indonesia. The Garden covering 87 hectares of land and has 15,000 types of trees and plant collections. Hadi Susilo Arifin and Nobukazu Nakagoshi (2011) mention that the Bogor Botanical Gardens takes part as  green open spaces in the city. 

Bogor Botanical Gardens is an ex-situ conservation area with a total of 2,972 species of 55 families of plants and become a habitat for wildlife such as birds, small mammals, and insects.

Currently Bogor Botanical Gardens is crowded as a tourist attraction, especially on Saturday and Sunday. Around the Bogor Botanical Gardens we could find scientific centers such as  Herbarium Bogoriense, Bogor Zoological Museum, and PUSTAKA.

One of the major attractions in Bogor Botanical Gardens is corpse flower (Amorphophalus titanum) which, when approaching bloom, release a pungent stench. This flower can reach a height of 2m and is the world's largest inflorescence plant. In the Bogor Botanical Gardens there are also the oldest palm trees in Southeast Asia that is still alive today.

Bogor Botanical Gardens is can be reached by train, with a ticket price of Rp 2,000 to Rp 6,000 for the economic and Commuter Line. The transport is cheap and environmentally friendly, makes it an enjoyable transportation. Bogor Botanical Gardens admission is Rp 9,500. At the information desk at the entrance there is a leaflet containing a map of the entire area which could be brought by visitors.

Brief history

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Bogor Botanical Gardens was initially a part of Samida (Artificial Jungle Or Artificial Gardens) that has been built at the very least in Baduga Sri Maharaja reign (The King of Siliwangi, 1474-1513). From Kingdom of Sunda, as stated in the Batutulis inscription, artificial jungle was intended to protect the interests of environmental sustainability as an area to maintain the seeds of rare wood. Aside from this Samida, the other Samida was also built on the border of Bogor with Cianjur (Forest Ciung Wanara). This jungle then neglected after the defeat of the Sunda kingdom to Sultanate of Banten, until the Governor-General Van Der Capellen built a vacation home in the mid of 18th century

In the early 1800s the Governor-General Thomas Stamford Raffles, who occupied the Istana Bogor and has a great interest in Botany, interested in developing the Bogor Palace courtyard garden into something beautiful. With the help of some expert Botany, W. Kent, who helped establish Kew Garden in London, Raffles courtyard was transformed to classic English-style garden.

In 1814 Olivia Raffles (wife of Governor-General Thomas Stamford Raffles) died due to illness and was buried in Batavia. For preservation, her monuments established in the Bogor Botanical Gardens.

Problems

According to Dr. Nurhayati of Landscape IPB , some problems in the KRB such as: the presence of many mall or commercial buildings that do not support the existence of KRB , lack of green space in the city of Bogor , loss of heritage values ​​, as well as things that do not fit with the character of the Bogor Botanical Gardens .

Bogor Botanical Gardens Problems:

1 . Vision to be a world -class conservation center has not been realized yet.

2 . Lack of officers identification in the Bogor Botanical Gardens as logos and uniform officers .

3 . Lack of public facilities such as: toilets, mosques, and trash.

4. Lack of information medium such as: plant name information, directions to attractions, maps, and board attention or warning.

5. Lack of information to the visitor that cause visitors to get lost in Botanical Gardens.

6. a lot of damage to the sign system caused by weather and irresponsible parties.

7. There is no consistency in the sign systems include color consistency, illustration, and typography.

8. Lack of efficiency of the sign system placement.