Wildlife Crimes Unit

Ministry of Forestry (MoF), Customs, Quarantine, National Police, LIPI (Indonesia Institute for Science), other agencies and WCS carried out pangolin workshop at October 17. The workshop placed in Jakarta, were invited by around 40 participants. The aim of the workshop is to establish national strategic plan to reduce pangolin trade in national and international level. MoF is host of the meeting and strategic plan discussion is led by WCU. Below are important results of the workshop:

1. At least 1 international pangolin smuggler will be arrest. Joint investigation between government and partners involving WCU as source of pangolin smuggling information. Focused are will be defined in Sumatra, Java, and Kalimantan.
2. Legal pangolin breeder will be assisted by LIPI to repair the captive breeding facilities. Number of pangolin brood stock will be increased by LIPI recommendation to supply captive breeding as long as the facilities have been repaired. Ministry of Forestry will hold to issue captive breeding permit before legal breeder in North Sumatra shows that the facilities success to breed the pangolin.
3. National campaign on pangolin conservation will be deployed through national level to raise awareness and public involvement, especially to make sure that pangolin is prohibited to be poached and traded.
4. Regular inspections will be scheduled to check soft shell turtle, monitor, and snake legal dealers since they are indicated  accepting pangolin from poacher. Inspections will be held by BKSDA as institution that issued the permit for dealer.
5. Customs, MoF, and airport/seaport authority will be joint together to increase inspection on export goods. Old modus show that the smuggler change the goods when left inside the airport/seaport for at least a night.

The strategy will be implemented by Ministry of Forestry between 2011-2014. We strongly recommended that the result and implementation of the workshop will be assisted by public (dna).