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Dunia kembali menggelar pemilihan 7 keajaiban dunia, namun kali ini adalah pemilihan 7 keajaiban alam atau New 7 Wonders of Nature. Melalui website resminya, panitia mengundang dunia untuk menominasikan dan memilih kandidat masing-masing melalui Internet di alamat ini. Batas waktu pemilihan adalah 31 Desember 2008.

Sampai dengan saat ini telah terpilih sejumlah 77 kandidat dari berbagai negara, termasuk Indonesia yang menominasikan tiga kandidat yaitu:

1. Komodo National Park (posisi sementara 27)
2. Krakatau Volcanic Island (posisi sementara 46)
3. Lake Toba (posisi sementara 47)

Proses voting yang dilakukan melalui Internet sedikit banyak akan menjadi kendala bagi Indonesia khususnya. Mayoritas masyarakat Indonesia tersebar di sekitar 80.000 desa, yang saat ini kita yakini belum tersentuh oleh teknologi informasi khususnya Internet, bahkan fasilitas telekomunikasi dasar yaitu telepon belum dapat dinikmati oleh mayoritas masyarakat Indonesia.

Semoga dengan momen ini, kita semakin termotivasi untuk bersama-sama membangun negeri tercinta ini demi mewujudkan masyarakat yang berbasis pengetahuan. Mari kita ciptakan Internet Masuk Desa, ya .. Blog Masuk Desa! Kenapa tidak? Sehingga informasi semacam pemilihan 7 Keajaiban Dunia ini barangkali akan menjadi pembicaraan yang tidak asing lagi di warung kopi atau pos ronda ya ..

“Kang .. njenengan wis padha milih keajaiban dunia durung? Nyoblose neng new7wonders dot com. Ojo lali batese 31 Desember iki lho, sapa ngerti negarane dhewe bisa menang”.

Komodo National Park

Indonesia’s Komodo National Park includes the three larger islands Komodo, Rinca and Padar, as well as numerous smaller ones, for a total area of 1,817 square kilometers (603 square kilometers of it land). The national park was founded in 1980 to protect the Komodo dragon. Later, it was also dedicated to protecting other species, including marine animals. The islands of the national park are of volcanic origin.

Krakatau Volcanic Island

Nestled between the large Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra is the Krakatau Volcano National Park. In the fourth century, a single marine volcano stood at this site, but in 416 A.D., the caldera of the volcano collapsed. The remnants formed a new caldera, or volcanic feature formed by the collapse of land following an eruption, around 7 km in diameter, with the peak’s remnants becoming the three islands of Verlaten, Lang and Krakatau. This volcano remnant was not dormant, however, and in August 1883, the volcano on Krakatau erupted with such violence that the sound was heard as far away as Madagscar and Alice Springs, Australia, thousands of km away. It was one of the largest terrestrial explosions in recorded history. The eruption also caused a tsunami 40 m high. Since 1927, continued eruptions and outflow material has formed a fourth island in the park, Anak Krakatau, or “Child of Krakatau.”

Lake Toba

Lake Toba is the largest volcanic lake in the world. At 100 km long and 30 km wide, measuring 505 m at its deepest point, it is situated in the middle of the northern part of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Surrounded by tall mountains, it cradles the large island of Samosir in its middle.