Central Kalimantan

Central Kalimantan (Kalimantan Tengah, Kalteng) is a province in the central and southern part of Kalimantan (Borneo), Indonesia.

Regions

Palangka Raya City

South Barito Regency including East Barito Regency.

North Barito Regency including Murung Raya Regency.

Kapuas Regency including Gunung Mas and Pulang Pisau Regency.

West Kotawaringin Regency including Lamandau and Sukamara Regency.

East Kotawaringin Regency including Katingan and Seruyan Regency.

Cities

• 1 Palangkaraya — the capital of Central Kalimantan
• 2 Kumai
• 3 Pangkalanbun

Other destinations

• 1 Tanjung Puting National Park — famous for its orangutan conservation. The national park consists of various (partly degraded) forest types, including peat swamp forests, mangroves, and coastal beach forests.

Understand

Flora and fauna

Central Kalimantan is also home for many endemic floras and faunas like orangutans, proboscis monkeys, hornbill birds, rattan, and Bornean iron wood.

Get in

Tjilik Riwut Airport (PKY ^IATA) in Palangkaraya has frequent flights from Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, and also direct domestic flights from Surabaya, Balikpapan, Pontianak, and smaller airports across Kalimantan. There is also an airport at Pangkalan Bun, Iskandar Airport (PKN ^IATA). The airport has flights to/from several major cities (such as Jakarta, Surabaya, and Banjarmasin) with Trigana Air.

• 1 H. Asan Airport (SMQ  ^IATA Sampit Airport).  

Do

You can go up the central river on a boat and visit orangutan reserves.