Indonesia's Green Hotels

Excellent service, strategic location, as well as clean and complete facilities are not the only consideration for travelers to choose to stay at a hotel, more and more travelers are demanding hotels with eco-friendly standards.
 
The followings are some hotels in Indonesia that have won the ASEAN Green Hotel Award which was held earlier this year in Kuching, Malaysia.

Borobudur Hotel
The hotel located in Lapangan Banteng area, Jakarta, has been famous for its ox-tail soup menu. 

The hotel had recently added more reputation as the number one green hotel in Indonesia with its recycle water and green cleaning system. The waste water in the hotel is recycled to be used to water the plantations and flushing the toilets.

The hotel also uses LED lights that are considered as a more ‘energy saver’ compared to conventional lights. The use of air conditioner and waste reductions are also proven efficient.

St. Regis Bali Resort

The St. Regis Bali Resort is located not far from Ngurah Rai International Airport of Bali. It is nested in front of Nusa Dua beach that offers beautiful scenery plus calm parks combo. 

Regis has been certified in the Earth Check Silver Certified for its ecofriendly building that is considered beneficial from nature, cultural heritage, and local economy.

Alila Villas Uluwatu

The villa was built on the high land near a beach and consisting of 50 hotel rooms and 35 family villas. The hotel also has infinity pools that faces the ocean. Spending the afternoon at the hotel can be a perfect moment.

Alila Villas Uluwatu becomes the first hotel in Bali that received environmentally sustainable design (ESD) certification and exceeding the green globe requirements. 

Alila incorporate Balinese pavilion architecture with rural scenery by the touch of modern open space. The building materials were taken from Bali or Java.

The Dharmawangsa Jakarta

The colonial-styled tropical house has high ceilings and large doors and windows that reinforce its grandeur look. The design also allows more air and sunlight to penetrate into building. Dharmawangsa was indeed designed to be in harmony with its surrounding nature by implementing green principles.

It enables the hotel to save 20 to 50 percent of the operational cost without reducing the aesthetic and international standard services. 

The Dharmawangsa has certified for energy and water saving, solid and liquid waste management, eco-friendly materials usage, and for the cooperation with local communities.

The hotel also supplies its water necessities from the rain and recycling the waste water.

Source : Tempo