2009年12月16日星期三

Wildlife attention - Open letter to the President of Republic of Indonesia

41 orangutans ahead exploited for kick-boxing shows in Thailand are traveling aback to Indonesia.Store this angel in big sizeAn Open Letter to the President of the Republic of Indonesia apropos the repatriation of Indonesian orangutans from Thailand:

Your Excellency Mr President Bambang Yudhoyono,

The Indonesian government’s adept efforts, lobbying and the NGOs’ continued harder campaigns ambitious the repatriation of hundreds of illegally exported Indonesian orangutans to Safari World in Thailand accept assuredly borne a absolute result. On 23rd September 2006, 41 orangutans ahead exploited for “kick-boxing” shows at the Thai Safari World are traveling to be alternate to Indonesia.

According to the plan, the orangutans are to be transported aback to Indonesia by a Hercules aircraft and clearly met aloft accession by the First Lady, Madam Kristiani Yudhoyono, calm with the aggregation from the Department of Forestry and a bartering company, Messrs Taman Safari Indonesia (TSI).

In account of the repatriation of the aloft Indonesian orangutans, we, six Indonesian NGOs consisting of ProFauna Indonesia, Animal Advocacy Institute (LASA), Indonesian Society for Animal Welfare (ISAW), BEBSIC Kalimantan Timur, Aliansi untuk Satwa Indonesia (AuSI) and Forum for Forest and Animals (FORESTA) ambition to accompaniment the following:

1.We acceptable the repatriation of 41 Indonesian orangutans to be cared for at the Orangutan Reintroduction Centre in Kalimantan with the sole cold of abiding them to the agrarian afterward their rehabilitation. There are added than acceptable accomplished animal assets and accessories provided at the Orangutan Reintroduction Centre in Kalimantan and the PPSs (Wildlife Rescue Centres) to affliction for all of the orangutans that will be arriving.

2.We acerb article to the captivation of Taman Safari Indonesia (TSI) in this action due to the actuality that TSI authority their own orangutan “shows”, base the orangutans for bartering purposes in a address agnate to the corruption accustomed by the actual orangutans accepting alternate from Safari World in Thailand. Taman Safari Indonesia has never been complex with our efforts in advancement and acclimation the acknowledgment of these apes at any date in the action and we see no acumen why they are now complex in the final date of the repatriation of the orangutans.

3.On 24th July 2006, two orangutans illegally exported and confiscated in Vietnam were repatriated to Indonesia. At that time these orangutans were briefly entrusted to the affliction of Taman Safari Indonesia for apprehension purposes and the government at the time promised that the two orangutans would be beatific to the orangutan re-introduction centre. However, to date these orangutans are still accepting kept at TSI. We ask that the Department of Forestry anon forward these two orangutans to the re-introduction centre so that they can accept a rehabilitation affairs as anon as possible, in adjustment to acclimate them to activity in the agrarian again.

4.We achievement that the Kalimantan Orangutan Reintroduction Centre which has been entrusted with the affliction of the orangutans from Thailand will accommodate advice to the accepted accessible on their action and advance during their rehabilitation with the purpose of ensuring accuracy on their able-bodied being.

Yours sincerely,

On account of the affiliation of NGOs for orangutans:

•Asep Rahmat Purnama (Chairman of ProFauna Indonesia)
Email: profauna@profauna.or.id

•Irma Hermawati, SH (Director of LASA)
Email: lasa@indo.net.id

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