Kutai National Park is a lowland national park located on the east coast of Borneo Island, in the East Kalimantan Province of Indonesia, few minutes south of the equator. It is located north of the Mahakam river and includes several lakes: Danau Maau, Santan, Besar and Sirapan. It is adjacent to the towns of Bontang and Sangatta and 120km north of the provincial capital Samarinda. There are several traditional bugis settlements within the national park.
This area originally as a Forest Inventory status with 2,000,000 ha area pursuant to the Decree (SK) Dutch East Indies Government (GB) Number: 3843/AZ/1934, which then by the Government of Kutai Wildlife established a Kutai through SK (ZB) Number : 80/22-ZB/1936 with 306,000 ha area.
Based on the geological map of East Kalimantan, the geological formations of this region largely involves three parts, namely: 1. Coastal part of the main alluvial sedimentary rocks and coral reefs. 2. The center consists of Miocene rocks above. 3. The western part consists of sedimentary rock bottom.
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