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The Baby Orangutan Online Trade On Police Ambushed

The sub-directorate IV police team of the Special Criminal Investigation Directorate of the National Police seen showing the evidence of illegal wildlife trade in the form of a male Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) baby at the North Sumatra police region of Indonesia on April 28, 2022. Head of​​ Sub-Directorate IV of Special Criminal Investigation of the North Sumatra Police, Police Commissioner, Poltak YP Simbolon together with the Natural Resources Conservation Center of North Sumatra, Sumatra Eco-project and Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Program (SOCP) NGO's have investigated the movement of suspect TH in the act of online selling endangered animals, including orangutans. Following up on the investigation, on April 28, 2022 at around 16.00pm, an orangutan trafficker was arrested in an area in Medan, North Sumatra Province, Indonesia. "The action was taken by the police, the Natural Resources Conservation Center of North Sumatra province, and the Sumatra Eco-project. It started with monitoring the social media account of the perpetrator who offered a baby Sumatran orangutan for 23 million rupiah or USD 1,600. The suspect TH and 4 other people were ambushed in a car carrying the evidence. Temporary suspicion that the evidence came from the Gunung Leuser National Tama area. This case is still in the process of further investigation," said Poltak YP Simbolon. Meanwhile, as evidence, a male Sumatran Orangutan baby aged around 1-4 months is currently receiving medical treatment and is currently being treated in the Orangutan quarantine. This was confirmed by the Head of Natural Resources Conservation Region I Mustafa Imran Lubis, S.P. "After going through the process of investigating evidence, the baby orangutan will undergo a media treatment process in quarantine, then if the physical and psychological health meets the requirements, then the release process will be the next stage," said Mustafa Imran Lubis. "In a series of cases of conflict between oranguta

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