Maludam occupies most of a peninsula between the Batang Lupar and the Batang Saribas in Betong Division, and it protects what is generally described as the largest remaining single block of intact peat swamp forest in Borneo. Peat swamp is not scenic in the way a limestone pinnacle is scenic — it is flat, dark-watered, and hard to walk through — but it is among the most important and most threatened forest types in Southeast Asia.
Its best-known resident is the red banded langur, a primate found in this corner of Borneo and almost nowhere else, and Maludam is its stronghold. The park also matters for what it stores: drained peat is the fuel behind the region's annual haze episodes, and intact peat like Maludam's is the counter-example.
