Bukit Pelawan

Information

Country

Indonesia (ID)

Location / Range

Pulau Bangka, Kepulauan Bangka Belitung

Mountain type

Bukit (perbukitan rendah) di Pulau Bangka

Volcanic?

No (non-volcanic)

Coordinates

-2.6167, 106.2667

Difficulty

Tidak terdokumentasi sebagai jalur pendakian; data terverifikasi sangat terbatas

Description

Bukit Pelawan is a hill on Bangka Island, within South Bangka Regency (Bangka Selatan), Bangka Belitung Islands Province, recorded as a named point in a geographic gazetteer (the GNS/NGA dataset later mirrored into OpenStreetMap) at roughly 2.62°S, 106.27°E. Its name derives from the pelawan tree (genus Tristaniopsis, family Myrtaceae) — a signature tree of Bangka's kerangas (heath) forests, which grow on nutrient-poor sandy-lateritic soils. The pelawan tree is well known across Bangka as the source of pelawan honey (a bitter honey) and as host to the economically valuable pelawan mushroom. Note that a separate hill of the same name, Bukit Pelawan in Dusun Pejem, Belinyu District, Bangka Regency (northern part of the island), is held sacred and off-limits by the Lom people — that hill is distinct from this South Bangka point. Detailed information on the elevation, trails, or forest cover of this South Bangka hill remains very limited and undocumented in official sources.