Rent 3 Boarding Rooms, Men In Solo Save 125 Birds From Cassowaries To Nuri Pelangi

Seized birds from laweyan boarding house tenants in Solo (ANTARA)

SOLO - Officials from the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK) have secured 125 birds that are categorized as protected animals. Birds were confiscated from a man who rented a boarding house in Laweyan, Solo, Central Java.

The investigative coordinator of the Center for Security and Law Enforcement (Gakkum) of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry for Java, Bali and Nusa Tenggara (Jabalnusra) Agus Mardiyanto stated that 125 animals were arrested. Meanwhile, the perpetrator with the initials YAS (22), a resident of Laweyan Solo, is now being taken to the Surakarta Police Headquarters for examination.

The disclosure of this case originated from public information. The team immediately investigated this case.

The Ministry of Environment and Forestry coordinated with the Surakarta Police before arresting the perpetrators.

"We have also been tracking the perpetrators through social media for a long time. We are tracking the perpetrators of the illegal animal trade," Agus said as quoted by Antara, Saturday, March 27.

The perpetrator at the boarding house rented three rooms. Two rooms for storing birds and the other for sleeping offenders.

The protected animals were successfully secured by officers, including one cassowary bird, one king cockatoo, eight orange crested cockatoo, two green peafowl, three parrot, 26 rainbow parrot, 10 crowned or mambruk virgin, and the butcher of Papua 74 tail.

The perpetrator sells the birds by sending them in packages with the bus entrusted to the buyer's area. The origin of the birds from eastern Indonesia is still being investigated.

Perpetrators can be charged under Article 40 paragraph 2 junto article 21 paragraph 2 a of Republic of Indonesia Law No.5 / 1990 which states that every person is prohibited from capturing, injuring, killing, keeping, possessing, maintaining, transporting and trading protected animals alive.

"Further handling of this case will be handled by the Central Java Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA). Evidence of the 125 protected animals, want to be returned to Papua or how will the Central Java BKSDA handle it later," said Agus.