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However, Indonesia also has the most endangered species. The World Conservation Union
(IUCN, 2003) lists as endangered 147 mammals, 114 birds, 91 fish and 2b invertebrate species.
Major conservation efforts are vital if these species are not to become extinct in the near future.
Trade in wild animals is a serious threat to many species in Indonesia. Over 95% of animals sold
in markets are taken directly from the wild and not from captive breeding stocks. More than 20% of
animals sold at market die in transportation. Despite this, many endangered and protected species
are traded freely, with the rarer species commanding higher prices.
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Other facts:
1. Approximately 115,000 parrots are trapped each year in the wild in Papua and Maluku,
including the highly endangered palm Cockatoo (Probosciger atterimus), Black headed Lory
(Lorius lory) and Yellow Crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita).
2. In 1999, around 27,000 turtles are slaughtered each year in Bali for satay ( a food
delicacy) and their shells used to make cheap ornaments for tourists. Although there has
been a degree of success in fighting and reducing the trade by 80%, the illegal smuggling of
the turtles to Bali still takes place.
3. Each year 1000 Kalimantan (Borneo) Orangutans are smuggled to Java and overseas.To
capture the Orangutan babies, the hunters will kill the mothers. At least one Orangutan dies
for each baby taken.
4. At least 2500 Javanese ebony langur (Trachypithecus auratus) each year are hunted for
illegal trade and for meat.
5. At least 3000 Gibbons are hunted each year for domestic wildlife trade or to be smuggled
overseas.
6. 40% of trapped wild animals die as a result of cruelty and pain inflicted during their
capture, transportation, cramped cages and inadequate food and water.
7. 60% of animalss illegally traded in the local wildlife markets are from endangered species
and which are by suppose to be protected by law.
8. 70% of primates and cockatoos kept as pets suffer from physical and behavioral problems
It is common in Indonesia for people to keep wild animals in cages, often without realizing that this
can be cruel to the animal and damaging to the species. Singing bird competitions are common in
some regions of the country, particularly Java, stimulating hunting and trade of certain species,
some of them endangered.
The above issues demonstrate the great complexity and diversity of problems facing Indonesia's
wildlife. Enforcement must be undertaken wholeheartedly and awareness programs for wild animal
protection consistently carried out if more species are not to become extinct in the country.
ProFauna therefore acknowledges the importance of support from all sources to efforts to protect
the uniquely rich biodiversity of this beautiful country.
There are many products from the tropical rainforest. Some products are: teak,
sandalwood, and ebony. Forests yield many resins, fibers, and fruits. The bark of the
coastal mangrove is used for tanning leather, and that of the cinchona for making
quinine. Huge rainforests cover some of the islands of Indonesia. They are partly
made up of Rafflesia growth. The Rafflesia weighs about 20 pounds and grow up to 3
feet wide.
Many different kinds of animals live in Indonesia, too. Some animals make their
homes in the rainforests, like rhinos, monkeys, elephants, and many birds. The
islands also have deer and wild pigs. Komodo dragons even live on some of the
islands.
Asda, Marks and Spencer and John Lewis' garden furniture pushing orang-utans towards
extinction
GARDEN FURNITURE SOLD by Asda, Marks and Spencer and John Lewis is made from trashed
rainforest timber and is responsible for pushing endangered animals such as the orang-utan further
towards extinction, according to Greenpeace today (29 May 2004).
The three companies are the worst offending High Street stores selling rainforest-wrecking garden
furniture, and have come bottom of a league table released by Greenpeace this Bank Holiday weekend
on where to buy garden furniture. The well-known retailers are using timber that comes from the last
remaining rainforests of south-east Asia to make outdoor goods such as tables, chairs and benches.
Much of the timber comes from Indonesia where nearly 90 percent of all timber is illegally logged. The
country has the longest list of endangered species in the world, including the Sumatran tiger and the
orang-utan.
Much of the timber used for garden furniture in the UK comes from the world's ancient forests. These
forests support around 90 percent of the world's land-based species and millions of forest-dwelling
people. Yet every two seconds, an area of ancient forest the size of a football pitch is destroyed.
Some retailers have proven that it is possible to use environmentally friendly timber that doesn't
endanger rare animals. B&Q, Woolworths and Robert Dyas sell garden furniture made of wood that is
certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) as being logged from environmentally friendly
sources.
Nathan Argent, Greenpeace Forests Campaigner, said: "If you're buying outdoor furniture from Marks
and Spencer or Asda to lounge around in the garden, you're contributing to trashed forests and the
extinction of the orang-utan.
"There are readily available alternatives that don't harm the environment or contribute to wiping out
rare animals, yet irresponsible stores like Asda and Marks and Spencer continue to buy timber from
destroyed rainforests. These companies should all be buying FSC certified timber, which is guaranteed
to be environmentally friendly."
Further information
Contact the Greenpeace press office on 020 7865 8255.
Notes:
The league table of garden furniture retailers shows those companies who were able to
offer products that had come from FSC certified sources. FSC certification ensures that
timber products come from socially and environmentally responsible forest
management.
Those companies at the bottom - Asda, Marks and Spencer and John Lewis - are all
purchasing rainforest timber and do not offer products that have been credibly certified
as legal and environmentally friendly.
Asda claim to be sourcing Red balau from plantations in Vietnam for their garden
furniture. There are no Red balau plantations and the tree species is not available from
Vietnam. Red balau is found in the last rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia.
Marks and Spencer source Nyatoh, which is found in Indonesia's last rainforests, and
were not able to verify that it has been sourced legally.
John Lewis are sourcing Teak and Melapi which is found in Indonesia' last remaining
forests.
Indonesian Religions
Indonesia is one of the most ancient homes of man. In 1891 a fossil skull of
Homo erectus was found in Central Java that is half a million years old, and
later an even more primitive type was unearthed. In 1931 the more advanced
Solo Man was discovered in the same area.
The first Hindu inscriptions date from the fourth century CE, though Indian
traders had arrived in Sumatra, Java, and Sulawesi two centuries earlier. By
the fifth century Hinduism was established on Java with Brahmanist cults
worshipping Siva. By the sixth century Buddhism was important in Sumatra
and Java, with the port of Srivijaya in southern Sumatra becoming a centre of
learning in the seventh century. Borobudur, the largest Buddhist monument in
the world, was built in the ninth century, and depicts the Buddhist cosmos. In
contrast to India, Hinduism and Buddhism in Indonesia lived in harmony and
by the ninth century syncretism was appearing. In the tenth century students
travelled to Nalanda, the great Buddhist monastic university in India, and
even to Tibet. During the twelth and thirteenth centuries Srivijaya exerted an
influence over all South-East Asia. The peak of Hindu-Javanese civilisation
was the Majapahit Empire in the fourteenth century, described as the golden
age of Indonesian history.
On Java only about ten per cent of the people follow the pure santri form of
Islam, some thirty per cent follow a syncretic Javanese form of Islam - a
blend of Sufism, Hinduism, and traditional religion, while the remainder
adhere to traditional Javanese beliefs, Hinduism, and Buddhism. The religious
complexity of Java is reflected in the hundreds of sects on the island.
Christians account for seven per cent of the population and are found in
centres all over Indonesia. Catholicism arrived with the Portuguese about
1512, who stayed for 150 years. The Dutch reached Indonesia in 1596 and
brought Protestantism. In the early seventeenth century the English were
rivals to the Dutch. There was Batak contact with Christianity in the 1850's
and 1860's. It was also in the nineteenth century that Christianity spread from
the coastal ports of Borneo and missionaries arrived among the Torajans on
Sulawesi. Indonesia became free of the Dutch with independence on 27
December, 1949.
There are several basic concepts and practices found in the traditional
religions of Indonesia, which are common to the Austronesian religious
conceptual framework
Third, there are rituals of life and death. These are part of a cycle to enhance
life and commonly have an agricultural theme with planting, growing, and
ripening into old age. Death rituals are highly important and these can have
stages continuing for years to assist the dead in the journey through the
afterworld. Headhunting was formerly an integral part of these death rituals.
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Indonesia
Indonesia is home to 35cm miniature deer, fish that climb trees to catch insects and spiders that catch and
Ape-man...Java is one of the earliest places in the world where ape-man lived. The skull of an ape-man who
lived at a time when most of Europe was under ice was discovered here.
Population...Indonesia has the fifth largest population in the world(+-180million) which equals the combined
Indonesia An ethnological goldmine...the variety of ethnic groups is unparalled anywhere else in the
Indonesia Volcanoes...Indonesia sprawls through a part of the western pacific known as the "Ring of Fire".
With over 400 active volcanoes, there are over 3 earthquakes per day.
Size...Indonesia has a total of 5million km2. One million more than the USA, although only 2 million km2 are
land.
Indonesia Islands...Three of the ten largest islands in the world are found here.
Endangered:
Vulnerable: