Jakarta Globe, Ratri M. Siniwi, October 14, 2016
Jakarta. Activists from Scorpion Wildlife Trade Monitoring Group, a local animal welfare organization, wore animal costumes to protest at the Jakarta City Hall on Thursday (13/10), calling on governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama to shut down the Jatinegara wildlife market in the eastern part of the capital.
Jakarta. Activists from Scorpion Wildlife Trade Monitoring Group, a local animal welfare organization, wore animal costumes to protest at the Jakarta City Hall on Thursday (13/10), calling on governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama to shut down the Jatinegara wildlife market in the eastern part of the capital.
"Every
day, we see acts of cruelty against animals, they are locked up in small cages
without water. Some of them are protected species," the group's senior
investigator, Marison Guciano, told Tribunnews.com.
According
to Scorpion's investigation from September, approximately 2,300 illegally
trafficked animals were available for sale at the Jatinegara market, 2,000 of
them birds. The rest were long-tailed macaques, civets, turtles and snakes.
The governor
said he was unaware of the report.
"I
have not received the report, but [illegal wildlife trade] is certainly
prohibited," Ahok told Kompas.com.
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