These juvenile monkeys, wild macaques, who are captured and stolen from their natural homes and families, are subjected to appalling routines in busy marketplaces and traffic to entertain humans, forced to wear ridiculous costumes, and made to endure dangerous environments while performing circus-like tricks. I am shocked to learn of the cruelty inflicted on monkeys in Jakarta for Topeng Monyet, or dancing monkeys, as detailed in the Mirror, and I am writing to request that you cease this practice immediately.
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Our revelations will put pressure on the Indonesian authorities to take action. The highly-social primates are forced to live inside cramped wooden crates and can’t interact with each other, leading them to become deeply disturbed.Īfter being “trained” they are taken to tourist spots to “work”. The monkeys are starved and only fed when they obey to make sure they learn quickly. Chains are then clamped around their necks and they have to stand up straight or be punished.
The monkeys are hung upside down so they learn how to walk upright. The poachers are paid £2 for each monkey by dealers, who sell them on to street “entertainers” in Jakarta for £5 each. The most popular one is to shoot the mother and then prise the clinging baby off her.īaby macaques are preferred as they have a longer life as performers. Teams of poachers use sickening methods to trap them. Their torment starts deep in the forests of Sumatra where the macaques, an endangered species of monkey, live. The disturbing images were passed to us by the Jakarta Animal Aid Network, which went undercover to expose the cruelty the monkeys endure. On one Jakarta street a monkey was found wearing a doll’s head mask, her suckling infant clinging to her as she begged for money at the side of a busy road.
Other creatures are forced to simply beg. If a visitor stops, the monkey is ordered by its owner to walk on his hands, sit on toy rocking horses or ride bicycles in the hope the tourist will hand over some loose change.
It is just one of a series of shocking images of the hell the monkeys endure in the slums of Jakarta in Indonesia, where they are forced to walk upright and wear costumes… all in the name of entertainment.Ī Sunday Mirror investigation discovered the monkeys are also made to wear masks, hats and glasses to catch the eye of passing tourists. Send a message ( sample below) to Fauzi Bowo, Jakarta Governor, and to the Indonesian Embassy in your country.įear and pain etched across his face, a little monkey cries out as he grabs helplessly at a metal chain biting into his neck.Īs he lets out a high-pitched scream a gang of men force him to stand up straight, laughing as they tighten the chain. Please click on and sign Stop the Torture of Macaque Monkeys in JakartaĢ.