Gunung Leuser National Park is one of the biggest and the most diversed national parks in Indonesia (950,000 hectare), covering 7,927 km² area in northern Sumatera, Indonesia. The national park, named after its highest peak, Mount Leuser (3,381 m), protects a wide range of ecosystems. Basically it’s a collection of various nature reserves and forests:
Nature Reserve Gunung Leuser, Nature Reserve Kappi, Nature Reserve Kluet, Sikundur Langkat Wildlife Reserve, Ketambe Research Station, Singkil Barat and Dolok Sembilin.
Most parts of the national park lie in the region Aceh Tenggara (SE Aceh). Other parts are situated in the region east Aceh, south Aceh, and Langkat (a part of North Sumatra).
Generally this park may represent each of this character of beach and swamp forest, lowland rainfores , montane or moss fores up to subalpine forest.
