The Covid-19 pandemic, which has lasted for more than two years, has made many people dare to realize their ideas. One of them is Hariyono, a member of Kaoem Telapak, who is slowly but surely building the ecotourism site Ujung Sapar, Central Kalimantan.

“The idea has been around for a long time, twenty-five years ago, when I came to Tanjung Puting, to monitor illegal logging,” said the man usually called Ejhon.

At that time, Ejhon told the idea to his friend Hapsoro, a Kaoem Telapak member. He said he intended to buy land in Telaga Pulang Village. Hapsoro encouraged him to buy the land. “Buy it! The price is low,” he said.

After that, Ejhon bought the land directly adjacent to Sembuluh Lake. He got that land for two and a half million rupiah with a land size is twenty hectares. The locals named it Ujung Sapar. “It turns out that it was the name of the first person who had opened land here. His name was Sapar. Due to the land position at the tip of the land, so people called the land Ujung Sapar,” Ejhon explained.

After Ejhon bought Ujung Sapar, he did not immediately cultivate the land. He is still busy with his activities in overseas lands, in Bogor and Banjarbaru. Ejhon only came to Ujung Sapar only on vacation with his family. They came to camp together.