BKSDA Bali Ensures Siamang Gibbons Handed Over By Badung Regent Giri Prasta Are Illegal

DENPASAR - The Bali Conservation and Natural Resources Center (BKSDA) has not been able to confirm the origin of the gibbon gibbon that was returned by the Regent of Badung I Nyoman Giri Prasta.

“I didn't get there, because I was more focused on saving the animals first. That, he said he was two months old. I can't say it's two months old or a week old, then the veterinarian will do the examination," said the Head of the Bali BKSDA, Agus Budi Santosa in Denpasar, Wednesday, September 15.

According to him, the condition of the gibbon gibbon, which was kept by the Badung Regent Giri Prasta, will be checked. According to him, there is no information about where the gibbon gibbon got from the Badung Regent.

"That I make sure the entry is illegal and I don't know. Maybe, we'll do something else, whether it's really from outside Bali, we don't know. Could it be that the item is already in Bali, with its parents, and that is what we will study further," he said.

"And I can't convey it today, because there are some materials that have been directed from Jakarta but we haven't been able to convey them. But we need time. born in Bali," continued Santosa.

The BKSDA ensures that the gibbon gibbon cannot live in the wild in Bali. The gibbon gibbon, according to Santosa, is not endemic to Bali.

The video of the Regent of Badung, Bali, I Nyoman Giri Prasta has been in the spotlight by netizens, for keeping gibbon gibbons, a protected animal.

The video was uploaded by his Instagram account @giri.prasta and went viral on social media, Wednesday, September 15. In the description of the upload, Giri Prasta wrote, "Today, Mimi is two months old, let's practice standing and walking,".

In the video with a swimming pool background, the Regent Giri Prasta also introduces the black monkey.

"Hello guys, her name is Mimi, so we take good care of her, we've given her all the medicine and now I'm teaching her to walk. Here she is walking near us, I'll take good care of her, steady... steady, always healthy," said Regent Giri Prasta in the video.

However, soon the video was deleted from his Instagram account after it went viral on social media.