JAKARTA - DKI Jakarta Governor Pramono Anung issued Governor Regulation Number 36 of 2025 concerning Amendments to Governor Regulation Number 199 of 2016 concerning Control of Rabies Infectious Animals.
This governor's regulation was issued according to Pramono's promise to prohibit the sale and slaughter of dog and cat meat in Jakarta. In this new governor's regulation, it turns out that it is not only dogs and cats whose meat is prohibited from being sold.
In Article 5, the types of rabies-contagious animals (HPR) that are included in the regulation include dogs, cats, monkeys, bats, civets, and their compatriots.
Pramono mengungkapkan, pergub ini ditetapkan sebagai dasar hukum dan acuan bagi aparat pelaksana dan setiap orang atau badan usaha untuk menjaga kesehatan HPR dan kesehatan manusia dari bahaya penyakit rabies.
"In order to provide food safety guarantees from biological, physical and chemical contamination and the spread of zoonotic diseases originating from rabies-contagious animals, it is necessary to prohibit the trade of rabies-contagious animals for food," wrote Pergub signed by Pramono, quoted Tuesday, November 25.
Pergub 36/2025 revises the clause in Article 27 in the previous governor's regulation. Where, in Article 27A this new governor's regulation is emphasized by everyone and/or business entities are prohibited from trading for food purposes, both HPR in the form of living animals and HPR products in the form of raw meat or processed food.
Then, Article 27B mandates that every person or business entity is prohibited from carrying out targeted activities or killing HPR for food purposes.
Pramono revealed that the ban on selling dog meat to cats in Jakarta was made after receiving an audience from the Dog Meat Free Indonesia Coalition (DMFI) last October. The ban has been in effect since this governor's regulation was issued, as he made a promise one month earlier.
"Alhamdulillah, in a month, Governor Regulation Number 36 2025 regarding the prohibition of buying and consuming rabies-contagious animal meat (HPR) can take effect. Hopefully this can protect and improve the health of Jakarta residents," Pramono explained in a video upload on his Instagram account, pramonoangw.
Previously, Pramono revealed, the legal umbrella underlying the ban on the sale and consumption of dog meat has also been mandated in Law Number 18 of 2012 concerning Food and Law Number 41 of 2014 concerning Animal Husbandry and Health.
"Those two laws are the reference, hopefully Jakarta will be an example for this," said Pramono.
On the one hand, Pramono will also encourage the DKI Jakarta DPRD to issue regional regulations to strengthen regulations related to the ban in Jakarta. "Hopefully we will also welcome the DKI Jakarta Provincial DPRD," he continued.
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