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East: Bukit Tigapuluh
Bukit Tigapuluh (30 Hills) is located north of the Batanghari river in the middle of Sumatra's eastern plain, in the region of Bukit Tigapuluh National Park. Most of the area which borders on the park has been zoned for conversion to plantations. There are serious problems with deforestation, due to both legal and illegal logging. The Orang Rimba population lives on the southern buffer zone of the park, with access to it for the collection of forest resources.
Some of the world's highest biodiversity figures have been recorded in the globally significant Tesso Nilo Complex, in which Bukit Tigapuluh is located.
