Indonesian internet forums trade in exotic wildlife are plagued with complaints from people who feel cheated because the creatures that they have ordered have unpaired descriptions. Especially when the animals listed as "healthy" and "vaccinated" dead on arrival.
People who are cheated when buying wildlife deserve no sympathy. Nor sellers who put animals in unventilated containers and place them with letters.
On reptilx.com website, a man using the handle Junichiro ordered an Indian star tortoise another member, DJ Tycoon for Rp.2.55 million. Two days after the transfer of money, Junichiro received a package containing a dead, rotting turtle. He said the package was in good condition so that the turtle must be dead before it is put into the box. Other members agreed that this kind of turtle can survive for five days in a package delivery.
Under the Law on Information and Electronic Transactions Indonesia in 2008, any person who knowingly disseminates false information resulting in consumer losses in electronic transactions can receive a maximum sentence of six years in prison and a fine of rp.1 billion. DJ Tycoon had only his reptilx.com account terminated.
At another site, an amateur cat Rp.3.5 paid millions for a "Persian extreme peak-nose", who look healthy in the pictures, but was skinny delivery and soon died in despite a costly visit to a veterinarian. The buyer believes that the supplier announced cats for sale because she knew she was dying. This kind of problem is easily avoided by not being snobbish about purebred cats and adopt instead a homeless puppy. Or even kampung kitten.
There are similar complaints birds and snakes wrapped arriving dead. Some scammers hijack the name of a reputable pet dealer, post pictures of the animals they do not possess, collect orders and fail to deliver. Other animals dye to make them look more exotic.
The trafficking of endangered species is thriving on the Internet. Pets for sale on the popular website Kaskus include slow loris, leopard cat, cockatoo sulfur-crested, scaly anteater, Javan surili monkey, gibbon Bornean Müller, the bearcat and protected parrots. There are others also for tigers and baby teddy real tigers. Prices tiger cubs go Rp.150 million to Rp.600 million. The eldest daughter of former President Suharto, Tutut, was known for keeping a pet tiger. The trade in these animals, alive or dead, is illegal. In the section of the administrator The law of murder documentary film there is a scene where the leader Pemuda Pancasila Yapto Soerjosoemarno jokes about shooting an endangered black rhino.
Conservation group ProFauna urges Kaskus to block advertisements for protected species. Last year tokobagus.com pledged to stop advertising the endangered animals.
Some religious healers claim they can heal the sick by transferring the disease to an animal, usually a goat. A woman in Lampung province consulted a holy man who insisted that an evil spirit had possessed her body and amounting to millions Rp.6 he could transfer the evil spirit in the body of a goat. A disturbing video of this chicanery is available on YouTube. The author of this imposture, Illahi Nur Muhammad, was not arrested for fraud or cruelty to animals.
People who can not afford goats can use rabbits. Yunita, the city of Pekalongan Central Java, felt ill during her fourth month of pregnancy. A doctor said she had cancer of the cervix and the recommended surgery. Instead, she visited an alternative healer who claimed to transfer the cancer at a rabbit. modernist preachers condemn this primitive quackery, because the disease is cured in place by praying to God.
The annual Islamic festival of Idul Adha (the Feast of Sacrifice) offers opportunities to defraud in the livestock trade, as devout Muslims are encouraged to buy sacrificial goats, sheep or cows to prove their piety. The simplest scam is to exaggerate the weight of a beast, because almost never vendors have scales. And there are unscrupulous agents snatching people who pool their money to buy a cow. For example, residents of a street can raise Rp.7.5 million and donate money to an agent, who can then purchase a cow Rp.5 million. Indonesians perform the haj pilgrimage to Mecca were warned to beware of agents offering sacrificial animals bargain-priced.
Some charitable people criticize the World Wide Fund for Nature simply because it failed to stop the decline in the number of Sumatran tigers, while its CEO Carter Roberts in 2012 collected a salary of $ 561,194 and benefits of $ 77,347.