Jakarta (Greeners) – Internet and its network has widen sumateran tiger trading networks around the globe, NGO says. Forum Harimau Kita, an endangered Sumateran tiger conservation NGO, Monday, (29/7/2013), said tiger trading in black market –sold live or by parts- has become much easier these days, by allowing deals done trough internet and have the endangered animal delivered afterward.

“We are demanding Indonesia Government to act more firmly on these commercial sites with tiger trading activities in it,” said Dolly Priatna from the NGO.

Hundreds volunteers from the NGO so called Jaringan TigerHeart, since 2010, have traced hundreds of links that considered part of tiger trading networks. Several sites are commonly used as trading networks in general. From these networking, the volunteers with Indonesia authority and their partners claimed to have success in pursuing some of the illegal traders in to the court of law.

NGO of Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) work hand in hand with Forestry Department in Indonesia, performed so called Wildlife Crime Unit (WCU) in order to pursue the sumatera tiger internet networks. They said, to have dismantled 18 online sumatera tiger trades, from 2011 until April 2013, which 12 of them sold tiger by parts. Four felonies has convicted in to state prison for 3-24 months.

Sumateran tiger, considered as the smallest tiger sub-species in the world, has declared as endangered species by world conservation body of IUCN. Dolly Priatna from Forum Harimau Kita said, the tiger population has become more less and less with the growing deforestation and wildlife black market.

Every part of sumateran tiger is considered valuable in the black market. Mills and Jackson research said that more than 3990 kilograms sumateran tiger bones has been exported from the Indonesia to South Korea from years of 1970 to 1993. The bones considered as valuable commodity for Chinese herbal medicine.

Sheppard and Magnus predicted at least 253 sumateran tigers have been taken from their habitat from 1998 to 2002, which mostly done by illegal hunt.  The Forestry Department predicted the wild life black market may have cost the country no less than IDR 9 billions per year.

Since 2010, international summit of tiger conservationist in Russia agreed to have so called Global Tiger Day every 29 July. The tiger day is for them to do mass protest and campaign for the endangered species.* (G04).

Jakarta (Greeners) – The five men may seems as innocent victims of tiger-attacked in Aceh Tamiang District, Aceh Province, Indonesia but sumatran tiger conservation NGO of Forum Harimau Kita demanded them to be sued in court of law. The NGO claimed those men are guilty for doing illegal logging in conservation forest of Kawasan Ekosistem Leuser, where the tiger attacked them at the first place.

“Forum (the NGO nickname) demand law authority to push lawsuit on the five survived men, based on the existing law,” said Dolly Priatna, as written in the NGO press release.

Six local men was exploring the conservation forest which happens to be endangered sumatran tiger home in Aceh Province, Tuesday, (4/7/2013). They were to harvest some aroma therapy aloes tree grown naturally there. They claimed to put animal trap in order to catch deer for food, instead to got an endangered sumatra tiger cub. Soon as they discovered the cub, four Sumatran adult tigers attacked them and killed one of them, David, 28 years old, meanwhile his friends had too climbed a tree to survive from the furious tigers. They stayed in tree until rescued by evacuation team of Leuser.

Dolly from the NGO sent their condolence for David’s death, but he said, local Government of Aceh Province still need to push law suit to the surviving men, and at the same time, campaign more on conservation law for endangered sumatran tiger in the neighboring villages. The six men are come from village of Simpang Kiri, neighboring with the conservation area. Dolly point out the incident proved conflict between tigers and people grown as the forest cover in Sumatra is getting less.

The NGO also demand Aceh Government to perform so called conflict management team to handle the problem.

The  five surviving men are Adi Susilo. 37 years old, Mujiono, 33 years old, Budi Setiawan, 36 years, Suriadi, 39 years and Awaluddin, 26 years old.*(G04).