“Let us know, how did you feel in Bukit Lawang Hill Resort? It was built with all our love! Our way of respecting Sumatra’s biodiversity is to do our best to use only fresh products, avoid instant foods, and avoid palm oil. Bukit Lawang Hill Resort is expected to approach tourism in an ecological way with less plastic use, it’s part of our ecotourism efforts in Bukit Lawang.”
Katharina Wenger (Owner of Bukit Lawang Hill Resort)
Bukit Lawang Hill Resort is a home base for SUMECO (the Sumatra Ecoproject). It’s a simple guesthouse with 4 rooms on the top of Raptor Hill in Bukit Lawang and an open view of the landscapes of Gunung Leuser National Park. It also involves providing activities such as conservation work, herping, nocturnal hikes, regular treks, and Sumatran tours.
Bukit Lawang Hill Resort has agreed to share its company benefits to support SUMECO conservation missions to save animals. It has become a strong point that the profits are shared within our company.
You have to get to Sumatra first, it is Indonesia, as Bukit Lawang Hill Resort is located in North Sumatra, two hours from Medan and three hours from Kualanamu airport. There are two options to get to Bukit Lawang from the airport: first, by public bus with a total cost of about 100,000 IDR, and second, by our private comfort car that costs 700,000 IDR.
For more information on how to get to Bukit Lawang or SUMECO from anywhere in Sumatra, you can contact me via WhatsApp by clicking the button below. We also provide private transport for all trips.
THE PHILOSOPHY OF SUMECO AND BUKIT LAWANG HILL RESORT
“The balance of nature is a state where our environment is in a good position to run its functions and provide all the necessary necessities to the available living things in a respected way. It’s also the state of biotic and abiotic components when they are properly functioning without being greedy toward one another.” Bobi Handoko (The Founder of SUMECO).
Careful management of natural resources and ecosystem protection has become the emerging dream of SUMECO and Bukit Lawang Hill Resort; it starts with all the little things we could do. Based on the IQAir 2021 World Air Quality report in March 2022, Indonesia is ranked as the most polluted country in the world with the highest concentration of PM2.5 at 34.3 μg/m3. Indonesia is also ranked first in Southeast Asia as the country with the most air pollution. Indonesia is the second country contributing to global marine plastic pollution. Every year, approximately eight million tons of plastic waste from land is reported to enter the oceans, which is the equivalent of 15 tons of waste per minute. Four countries, including China, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam, are the biggest contributors to global marine plastic pollution. Source: The ASEAN POST.
WHAT DOES BUKIT LAWANG HILL RESORT DO TO BE CONSIDERED AN ECORESORT IN BUKIT LAWANG?
Bukit Lawang Hill Resort and Bukit Lawang Ecotourism are teamed-up to support SUMECO (Sumatra Ecoproject) financially to continue its grassroots work in the wildlife conservation efforts by saving animals in need especially protected species around Gunung Leuser National Park. It has become our commitment as we believe the preservation of the biodiversity of Gunung Leuser National Park is extremely important, and it has to be our responsibility together.
Bukit Lawang Hill Resort was built in 2016, has become a base and played a big role to support and provide profits to SUMECO to extend its conservation mission by using SUMECO to become tourist activity services, such as jungle tours, study trips, accommodation, and volunteerism.
SUMECO believes it’s very important to keep the business running as SUMECO gains financial support from these profits to continue its work saving the animals.
Bukit Lawang Hill Resort is sitting on the top of the hill alone, 90 meters above the Bohorok river, and its elevation provides a large view up to Medan and the green view of Gunung Leuser National Park.
It’s a place to spot sunbirds, slow loris, snakes, Thomas leaf monkeys, macaques, eagles, and it is also a place to start the herping trip. Bukit Lawang has been positively impacted by the dense biodiversity of Gunung Leuser National Park, and this is what we have to maintain.
