Bogor Botanical Gardens

The Bogor Botanical Gardens (Indonesian: Kebun Raya) are located 60 km south of the capital of Jakarta in Bogor, Indonesia. The gardens cover more than 80 hectares and was build by Java's Dutch Governor-General Gustaaf Willem, Baron van Imhoff who was governor of Java at the time. The extensive grounds of the presidential palace were converted into the gardens by the German-born Dutch botanist, Professor Casper George Carl Reinwardt. The gardens officially opened in 1817 as 's Lands Plantentuin ('National Botanical Garden') and were used to research and develop plants and seeds from other parts of the Indonesian archipelago for cultivation during the 19th century. Today the garden contains more than 15,000 species of trees and plants located among streams and lotus ponds. There are 400 types of exceptional palms to be found along the extensive lawns and avenues, helping the gardens create a refuge for more than 50 different varieties of birds and for groups of bats roosting high in the trees. The bats can be easily detected by the noise they make while competing for space under the canopies. The orchid houses contain some 3000 varieties.

Directors of the garden
1817-1822 : Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt (1773-1854)
1823-1826 : Carl Ludwig Blume (1789-1862)
1830-1869 : Johannes Elias Teijsmann (1808-1882)
1869-1880 : Rudolph Herman Christiaan Carel Scheffer (1844-1880)
1880-1910 : Melchior Treub (1851-1910)
1910-1918 : J.C. Koningsberger
1918-1932 : Willem Marius Docters van Leeuwen (1880-1960)
1932-1939 : K.W. Dammerman
1939-1940 : L.G.M. Baas Becking
1940-1941 : T.H. Honert
1941-1943 : D.F. van Slooten
1943-1945 : Takenosin Nakai (1882-1952).
1946-1948 : L.G.M. Baas Becking
1948-1949 : Dirk Fok van Slooten (1891-1953).
1949-1959 : Kusnoto Setyodiwirjo
1959-1969 : Soedjana Kassan
1969-1981 : Didin Sastrapradja
1981-1983 : Made Sri Prana
1983-1987 : Usep Sutisna
1987-1990 : Sampurno Kadarsan