Police Arrest Nias Beo Sellers In Palembang

PALEMBANG - The Palembang Polrestabes team, South Sumatra, arrested a seller of protected animals of the nias parrot (Gracula robusta). Head of Criminal Investigation at the Palembang Police Commissioner Tri Wayudi said the perpetrator was a man named Yoss Sugesta (27) a resident of Jalan Kebun Bunga, Lorong Asoka, Sukarami District, Palembang.

Sugesta was arrested by the police at his home almost without a fight on Thursday evening (16/6).

"The perpetrator Yoss was arrested for selling the protected animal on social media, the information was obtained from a resident report that we developed," he said. perpetrator was arrested.

During the arrest, the police also confiscated six nias parrots, aka Chinese nias, ready to be sold alive in a wire cage at Sugesta's house.

Compared to ordinary parrots, nias parrots are larger and denser and have a higher level of intelligence, marked by their ability to imitate various sounds and sounds as well as sentences spoken by humans.

He explained that Sugesta admitted that he got the protected bird directly from Nias Island, North Sumatra, from someone in Padang, West Sumatra, who bought it for Rp. 700,000/bird.

From the price, Sugesta resells the Nias parrots for IDR 1.2 million to the public through the Facebook social media trading channel.

"And it's certainly prohibited to be traded, because the nias parrot has a protected status according to the BKSDA, its population in the wild is threatened with extinction," he said.

For his actions, the perpetrator is suspected of violating Article 40 paragraph (2) in conjunction with Article 21 paragraph (2) letter a of Law Number 5/1990 concerning Conservation of Biological Natural Resources and Ecosystems, with a penalty of five years in prison and a fine of Rp. 100 million.

"The perpetrator has been arrested at the Palembang Polrestabes Headquarters for further examination, while the evidence of the nias parrot was handed over to the South Sumatra BKSDA to be released back into its habitat," he said.