Team Research USA Targets Mount Mekongga

Adventure activities such as hiking, although many people are becoming interested, but for common people still invites the question, "What's going up the mountain .... ?"

Mekongga mountain with an altitude of 2620 masl is one of the targets for those who love adventure, but not only that, Mekongga also be used as study area for research institutions in the country and from abroad.

From the few times that the research activities conducted Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) always involves Korps Citaka - Indonesia as a Field Operations Team.

On August 2, 2009, TIM LIPI 2 (24 people), TIM Researchers from the University of California (UCLA-DAVIS) 8 people and 8 people from the Korps Citaka - Indonesia go to tehe highest mountain in Southeast Sulawesi for doing research.

They departed from the Kolaka city to the village Tinukari, Ranteangin North Kolaka with using seven cars. Three days earlier, Team 1 from LIPI and Korps Citaka - Indonesia team with three cars, go on ahead to bring food and supplies to the village Tinukari. Then the next day, 30 local people as porters arrived CAMP 1 to prepare supplies for the TEAM 2 which will be arriving today.

Moss, Insects, Birds, Plants Pakis, Microbes and Local Culture is the target of their research this time. This study estimated five years.
For Korps Citaka - Indonesican itself is the third time the research activities in cooperation with the Indonesian Institute of Sciences, hopefully this time the activity can be useful to science and give a little overview and answers to common people to the question "What's going up the mountain .... ?"