Jawa Timur Park

Jawa Timur Park, commonly called Jatim Park, is a multi-park leisure and education complex based in Batu, East Java, Indonesia. It combines amusement-park rides with museums, science and natural-history exhibits, zoological attractions, cultural installations, hotels, and themed visitor experiences. The complex is organized around three principal destinations: Jatim Park 1, Jatim Park 2, and Jatim Park 3. Together, they have made the brand one of East Java's best-known tourism icons and one of Indonesia's prominent amusement and family-education destinations. The first park, Jatim Park 1, was established in 2001 under the leadership of founder Paul Sendjojo. Its model combines conventional recreational attractions with educational displays. The park includes numerous amusement areas, a large swimming pool, a spinning coaster, a drop-zone ride, and themed spaces relating to volcanology, Indonesian history, agriculture, endangered animals, and temples. Its educational orientation distinguishes it from a purely rides-based amusement park and reflects the group's stated cooperation with Batu's municipal education and cultural authorities to support the quality of displayed educational collections. Jatim Park 2 developed a more explicit natural-science and zoological identity. It consists of the Wildlife Museum, Batu Secret Zoo, and the Pohon Inn Hotel. Rather than presenting itself primarily as a conventional fairground, the park uses animal habitats, biological interpretation, and museum displays to create a learning-oriented visitor experience. The park covers approximately 22 hectares and was developed with cooperation involving Indonesia's Ministry of Environment and Forestry for content development. Its attractions broaden the group's business beyond rides into conservation-related interpretation, hospitality, and family tourism. Jatim Park 3, located in Beji in Junrejo District, extends the brand into prehistoric life, geology, world cultures, music, technology, and immersive entertainment. Its dinosaur-oriented attractions present prehistoric life and geological periods including the Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous, as well as the Ice Age. Other components include the 5 Periods Culture Park, which presents cultural themes through architecture and themed houses; the World Music Gallery; Fun Tech Plaza; The Legend Star; and Millennial Glow Garden. This portfolio gives the overall brand a broad, destination-style character rather than limiting it to one park format. The group has also developed specialized museums. The Bagong Adventure human-body museum opened in 2016 and is described as Indonesia's only museum of its type, with preserved human-organ specimens among its collections. Museum Angkut, a transportation museum associated with the group, presents a collection of more than 300 vehicles across an approximately 3.8-hectare site and has been described as the first and largest transportation museum in Asia. In April 2017, Jawa Timur Park Group formally cooperated with the Indonesian Institute of Sciences, then known as LIPI, to improve the collection and management of flora and fauna data in participating parks. Jawa Timur Park's positioning rests on the integration of entertainment and learning. Its attractions target families, domestic tourists, school-related visits, and visitors seeking themed museums and animal experiences. The parks are distributed across Batu and nearby areas, with Jatim Park 1 on Jalan Kartika, Jatim Park 2 on Jalan Oro-oro Ombo, and Jatim Park 3 in Beji. No reliable public information in the supplied materials establishes a current corporate owner, public listing, revenue figure, official website, or current executive roster.

Jawa Timur Park emerged in 2001 as a tourism and education venture in Batu, East Java, founded by Paul Sendjojo. Batu's highland setting and established role as a regional holiday destination provided a suitable base for a complex that could serve both recreation and learning. From its earliest formulation, the brand differed from a conventional amusement park by combining rides with educational spaces covering Indonesian culture, agriculture, natural science, geology, and endangered wildlife. Jatim Park 1 established the core operating model. The park offered a substantial collection of amusement areas, including a large swimming pool, a spinning coaster, and a drop-zone attraction, while also incorporating educational zones such as the Volcano area and Nusantara Gallery. Displays included agro-plants, endangered-animal dioramas, temple miniatures, and other material connected with Indonesian heritage and natural resources. The group worked with Batu's municipal education and culture authorities so that its educational collections could be developed and maintained with institutional input. The next major development was Jatim Park 2, which gave the brand a stronger natural-history and zoological profile. The park brought together the Wildlife Museum, Batu Secret Zoo, and Pohon Inn Hotel. Its design emphasized biology and natural sciences, presenting animals and related learning content in settings intended to evoke their habitats. With an area of approximately 22 hectares, Jatim Park 2 became the group's largest park according to the supplied reference material. The group also worked with Indonesia's Ministry of Environment and Forestry in developing content for the park, reinforcing its connection with environmental and biological education. The group expanded its museum portfolio during the same broader period. Museum Angkut developed as a major transportation museum, displaying more than 300 vehicles over approximately 3.8 hectares. Its collection and scale positioned it as a distinctive attraction within the group's portfolio and broadened the business into specialized museum tourism. In 2016, the group opened The Bagong Adventure, a 1.4-hectare human-body museum. The museum focuses on the human body and includes preserved human organs, giving the complex another specialized educational attraction. In April 2017, Jawa Timur Park Group formalized cooperation with the Indonesian Institute of Sciences, known as LIPI at the time, to adjust the data-collection and management system for flora and fauna in the relevant parks. This step indicates an effort to strengthen the scientific organization behind the group's natural-history and zoological content, although the supplied sources do not provide detailed results or later evaluations of the cooperation. Jatim Park 3 extended the group into prehistoric and immersive themed entertainment. Located in Beji, in Junrejo District, it presents dinosaurs and the geological periods associated with prehistoric life, including the Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous, along with the Ice Age. The park also includes the 5 Periods Culture Park, World Music Gallery, Fun Tech Plaza, The Legend Star, and Millennial Glow Garden. These attractions combine educational storytelling with visual theming, interactive technology, and entertainment. By the period described in the reference material, Jawa Timur Park had developed into a multi-site destination brand rather than a single amusement park. Its operating scope included rides, museums, wildlife attractions, educational exhibits, cultural experiences, hotels, and themed visitor environments. The brand's public identity is closely associated with Batu and with East Java tourism. The supplied materials do not establish its current ownership structure, financial performance, executive leadership, or official website, so those details remain unreported here.

• 2017

  Cooperation with LIPI is formalized

  [2]The Bagong Adventure opensen.wikipedia.org

  Jawa Timur Park Group began cooperation with the Indonesian Institute of Sciences to improve flora and fauna data collection and management.

• 2016

  The Bagong Adventure opens

  [2]The Bagong Adventure opensen.wikipedia.org

  The group inaugurated a specialized human-body museum with anatomy-focused content and preserved human-organ specimens.

• 2001

  Jatim Park is founded

  [1]Jawa Timur Parken.wikipedia.org

  Paul Sendjojo founded Jawa Timur Park in Batu, East Java, establishing the basis for the later multi-park tourism and education complex.

A family-oriented Indonesian destination brand that combines amusement, education, natural science, wildlife, museums, cultural interpretation, and immersive themed entertainment.

• Amusement and educational park · 2001

  Jatim Park 1

  The original park combines amusement rides and family recreation with educational zones. Its attractions include a large swimming pool, spinning coaster, drop-zone ride, Volcano area, Nusantara Gallery, agricultural displays, endangered-animal dioramas, and temple miniatures. The park is designed to present entertainment alongside material related to Indonesian culture, nature, and science.

• Wildlife, natural-history, and educational park

  Jatim Park 2

  Jatim Park 2 is the group's learning-oriented natural-science destination. It consists of the Wildlife Museum, Batu Secret Zoo, and Pohon Inn Hotel. The park emphasizes biology, animal habitats, and natural-history interpretation, distinguishing it from the more ride-centered character of Jatim Park 1. It occupies approximately 22 hectares according to the supplied reference material.

• Prehistoric, cultural, and immersive theme park

  Jatim Park 3

  Located in Beji, Junrejo District, Jatim Park 3 focuses on dinosaurs, prehistoric life, geological eras, and themed educational entertainment. Its broader attractions include the 5 Periods Culture Park, World Music Gallery, Fun Tech Plaza, The Legend Star, and Millennial Glow Garden. The combination of prehistoric interpretation, culture, technology, and visual immersion expands the brand's destination offering.

• Zoo and wildlife attraction

  Batu Secret Zoo

  Batu Secret Zoo forms part of Jatim Park 2 and presents animal attractions within a broader natural-science and learning environment. Its role in the complex is to combine wildlife viewing with habitat-themed interpretation and family tourism.

• Natural-history museum

  Wildlife Museum

  The Wildlife Museum is a core component of Jatim Park 2. It supports the park's biology and natural-science positioning through museum-based animal and wildlife displays, complementing the live-animal experiences at Batu Secret Zoo.

• Human-body museum · 2016

  The Bagong Adventure

  Opened in 2016, The Bagong Adventure is a specialized human-body museum covering approximately 1.4 hectares. Its exhibits focus on human anatomy and include preserved human-organ specimens, making it one of the group's most distinctive educational museums.

• Transportation museum

  Museum Angkut

  Museum Angkut is a transportation museum associated with Jawa Timur Park Group. Its collection includes more than 300 vehicles displayed across approximately 3.8 hectares. The museum adds automotive and transport history to the group's mix of education, themed environments, and tourism attractions.

• Hotel

  Pohon Inn Hotel

  Pohon Inn Hotel is integrated into the Jatim Park 2 destination. It supports the complex's destination-resort model by combining accommodation with access to the park's wildlife museum and zoo attractions.

• 2017

  Strengthening flora and fauna data managementStrategy

  Background

  The group's parks included zoological and natural-history content that required organized collection and interpretation systems.

  Action taken

  Jawa Timur Park Group cooperated with the Indonesian Institute of Sciences to adjust the data collection and management system for flora and fauna in participating parks.

  Aftermath

  The supplied reference confirms the cooperation but does not report measurable outcomes or later evaluations.

  Source

1. 1Jawa Timur Parken.wikipedia.org
2. 2The Bagong Adventure opensen.wikipedia.org