Anies Baswedan Targets Jakarta To Become An Animal Friendly City In Today's Memory, September 28, 2021

The Governor of DKI Jakarta, Anies Baswedan, is feeding stray cats. (ANTARA)

JAKARTA Memories of today, four years ago, September 28, 2021, the Governor of DKI Jakarta, Anies Baswedan is targeting Jakarta to become an animal-friendly city. The goal is that Jakarta residents can celebrate love for the surrounding animals.

Previously, Anies liked to raise animals. Cats, especially. This condition makes him have more sensitivity to the animals around him. He does not want animals to be seen as the cause of health problems. Anies as the leader of Jakarta then echo: vaccination, sterilization, and adoption.

Leaders who have pets are common. The President of the United States (US) alone is known to have the majority of pets except for Donald Trump. The first President of Indonesia, Soekarno, is also known to have had pets from dogs to cats.

The leader of DKI Jakarta, Anies Baswedan, did not want to lose. He has several cats in his house. Some of them are adopted cats. Anies and his family often show off their closeness to cats.

All kinds of adorable behavior of cats are often uploaded on social media. Responses from various kinds of cat fans have sprung up. The question then became popular. Because, Anies often tells stories from his cat.

Take, for example, a cat named Lego. The cat was adopted by Anies from his friend. Lego is in a flawed condition due to being tortured by irresponsible people. Anies then immediately took care of him. Lego immediately won the hearts of Anies' family with his behavior.

Anies' fans of caring for cats make him more sensitive to the large number of stray cats in Jakarta. Anies, who incidentally, the Governor of DKI Jakarta, often invites his staff to provide space for the animals.

As a result, the DKI Jakarta government often vaccinates, sterilizes, and adopts. This activity is considered an accurate way so that Jakarta residents can live side by side comfortably with animals.

"Yes, that's right (about efforts to suppress disease from animals), as well as cleanliness which is a problem, especially around these markets. We also receive a lot of complaints from residents for animals who are not treated in their environment, so that someone takes it."

"The name is also a creature who has feelings that also needs affection because it is also approached by an approach with feelings and affection, right, these are both creatures. Like this, it's very easy to happen, it doesn't have to be a country that adopts, it can be a lot of people. So because it involves, communities. Then the action plan must be together with the community and society," said Anies as quoted on the website.com, January 9, 2019.

Anies' concern for wild animals around Jakarta was shown at the commemoration of World Rabies Day in the Ancol Dreamland Park area, North Jakarta on September 28, 2021. Anies invited all Jakartans to care more about the surrounding animals, from cats.

He wants Jakartans to be able to live side by side with animals. As a result, Anies began to target Jakarta to become an animal-friendly city like Istanbul, Turkey. Anyone can freely chat and feed animals in the city.

This desire made Anies ask his staff to continue to schedule vaccination, sterilization and adoption efforts. The goal is so that the disease does not infect the animals.

"Jakarta has been declared a rabies-free city for 17 years, but the target is for Jakarta to become an animal-friendly city," Anies said as quoted by the website, September 28, 2021.