Nusa Kambangan
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Nusa Kambangan (also Nusakambangan, Nusa Kembangan) is a 121 km² island off the southern coast of Java, near the town of Cilacap in Central Java province.
The island is home to two forts built by the Dutch between 1861 and 1873, as well as three maximum-security prisons, leading to it sometimes being called the "Alcatraz of Indonesia". Famous people once imprisoned on the island include poet and novelist Pramoedya Ananta Toer. Former Minister of Forestry Bob Hasan, convicted of corruption charges, was held there from 2001 to 2004. As of 2005, prison inmates include the three men convicted of organising the 2002 Bali bombing.
The island is home to about three thousand residents in addition to the prison inmates and staff, and is the site of rubber and teak plantations. From the mid-1990s, the island was intermittently promoted by local authorities as a tourist destination, primarily for its caves, beaches, and unusual wildlife that is extinct on Java.[1]
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- ^ "Central Java to promote island resorts", Asia Pulse September 18, 1997.
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