A tropical rainforest on Sumatra. Sightings of the "orang pendek," a short ape walking upright on two legs, have come from local people and researchers.
Sighting & Incident Site
Kerinci Seblat National Park (Sumatra)
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Positions on the map are a rough guide to the area where a legend or sighting is set. Most pins are placed at representative points of a municipality or prefecture (outside Japan, a city position rounded to about 10 km, or the country), not at the exact place.
Municipality points: Geolonia address data (CC BY 4.0), based on the Address Base Registry (Digital Agency of Japan) / Country points: Natural Earth
| Encyclopedia | Orang Pendek |
|---|---|
| Location | Indonesia Jambi Province, Sumatra |
| Type of place | Mountain |
| Map position | Approximate position (City, rounded to about 10 km), not the exact place |
A small, bipedal hominid-type cryptid about 1 m tall said to live in the forests of Sumatra, Indonesia. The name means "short person." It drew renewed attention when fossils of a small early human were found in 2003.