The wide stretches in West Kalimantan and functions vital to life along the river that flows from it to make this national park is recognized as one of the Ramsar site, an international treaty that protects the world's most important water conservation area. Before 1999, this national park status has not been born. Even the birth process to go through a long process, until 2006, then the operationalization of this national park is really run. National Park Lake Sentarum become an international tourist destination where the beauty of color photographs of the adventurers travel the world.