Wildlife Crimes Unit

SPORC (Rapid respond forest ranger) Brigade Macan Tutul, supported with WCU (Wildlife Crime Unit) arrested a suspect of orangutan trader in the border of North Sumatra and Aceh (21/7/2011). The suspect was arrested when he tried to sell an orangutan to buyer in Tanah Karo District. This operation was began when local people informed forest ranger about someone will sell orangutan in North Sumatra. Forest ranger then set up investigation work to make sure the information is valid.

Operation was set up when investigator met the trader and an orangutan in his house.  The trader offer the money for down payment when the transaction was deal. The trader was arrest when the investigator and him met together in meeting point. The orangutan was sent to SOCP rehabilitation center facility near Medan.  The civil investigator start to process the suspect’s legal material. The suspect have been sent to prison while waiting the legal document is finished. This is a trial case for Sumatran Orangutan. If the case will be finished until prosecution and sentence, it will be the first successful case in Sumatra. (dna)