Bringing Pertamina's Peatland Conservation Online, in 360°
- Client
- PT Pertamina (Persero) — Kilang Pertamina Internasional
- Brand
- Pertamina · Arboretum Gambut Marsawa, Sungai Pakning
- Industry
- Energy · CSR & Environmental Conservation
Overview
Pertamina is Indonesia's state-owned energy company, running the country's oil and gas operations from upstream fields to refineries and fuel stations nationwide. Alongside its energy business, Pertamina runs environmental and community programs around its operating areas.
One of them is Arboretum Gambut Marsawa, also known as Arboretum Gambut Sungai Pakning, is a peatland conservation and edu-tourism area in Kampung Jawa, Kelurahan Sungai Pakning, Kecamatan Bukit Batu, Kabupaten Bengkalis, Riau.
The site survived the major forest and land fires of 2015 and has since been developed through Pertamina's CSR program at its Sungai Pakning refinery, together with the local Tunas Makmur farmers' group. Today it is a living classroom for peat-swamp flora — from meranti, geronggang, and gelam trees to several species of Nepenthes pitcher plants — with walking paths, a seedling nursery, gazebos, and a pond.
Pertamina wanted more people to experience the arboretum than could ever visit Bengkalis in person. Vastech took the 360° imagery of the site and turned it into a real, interactive virtual tour that is published online and accessible from any device.
“From a Patch of Peat Forest in Bengkalis to a Tour Anyone Can Walk Online.”
Step Inside the Tour
This is the actual tour Vastech built and published. Drag to look around, follow the arrows to move between spots, and open the menu to browse scenes.
The Challenge
A Conservation Site Few People Can Visit in Person
The arboretum is remote, small, and seasonal by nature. Sharing it meant solving several problems at once:
- Remote Location
- Limited Visitor Capacity
- Seasonal Access
- Peatland Education
- Plant Identification
- Site Orientation
- Large Panorama Files
- Mobile Access
- No App Install
Photos and videos could show the arboretum, but they could not let people explore it. Students, researchers, and the public needed a way to move through the site, discover its plants, and understand why peatland matters — without travelling to Sungai Pakning.
The 360° imagery existed. What was missing was a polished, lightweight experience that actually works on the web.
We Treated the Arboretum as a Place to Walk, Not a Gallery to Scroll.
Vastech mapped the arboretum's real walking routes — from the ticketing gate through the Nepenthes tunnel, the nursery, and the pond — and linked each 360° scene so visitors move through the site the way they would on foot.
Navigation arrows, information hotspots, a scene list, a plant list, and an aerial drone view sit on top of the panoramas.
Each panorama is split into multi-resolution tiles, so the tour opens quickly and only loads sharper detail where the visitor is looking.
The same tour adapts its interface for desktop and mobile, and runs in any modern browser with no app to install.
A Walkable Peatland, One Click Away.
Vastech delivered a 360° virtual tour of Arboretum Gambut Marsawa that is live on the web.
Visitors can fly over the peatland, walk its paths, stop at each plant, and learn about the ecosystem — all from a browser.
Everything About the Arboretum, in One Tour
The tour brings the arboretum's places, plants, and story into a single experience. Scenes, hotspots, and menus are connected, so every part of the site is only a click away from the next.
A conservation site, opened up to everyone.
Our Role
Vastech produced the virtual tour from the 360° imagery and took it all the way to a live, accessible website.
Our involvement includes:
- 01Tour planning & route mapping
- 02360° scene stitching & linking
- 03Navigation & info hotspots
- 04Tour interface design
- 05Plant list & photo album
- 06Aerial view integration
- 07Desktop & mobile layouts
- 08Performance optimisation
- 09Web publishing
Let People Explore
Your Place, Anywhere
Arboretum Gambut Marsawa shows how a place can reach far beyond its physical visitors.
Whether it is a conservation area, a campus, a facility, or a showroom, Vastech can turn it into a 360° experience that anyone can explore online.
Immersive. Accessible. Built for the Web.
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