VICTORY *THIS PRACTICE IS NOW PROHIBITED* Cruelty Behind the Mask of Jakarta’s Monkey – A Life Of Torture & Begging

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THIS SICK PRACTICE HAS JUST BEEN MADE ILLEGAL

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Tue, 10/22/2013 11:17 AM | Jakarta

The Jakarta Animal Aid Network (JAAN) welcomed the decision by Governor Joko “Jokowi” Widodo to prohibit topeng monyet (masked monkey shows) across the city by next year.

“We are very happy with this decision because we have been fighting against this practice since 2009,” JAAN founder Femke den Haas said on Monday.

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Petition Target: Embassy of Indonesia, Indonesian Ministry of Environment Sponsored by: Animal Advocates Masked street monkeys in Jakarta, Indonesia are forced to wear bizarre costumes and give street performances as their owners collect money from spectators. The emaciated long-tailed macaque monkeys are made to wear doll masks, wigs, and clothes and perform human tasks such as riding bikes, rocking horses and scooters. Many are brutally trained to walk upright by being hung upside down, or having their hands tied behind their backs. In the first two weeks of being trained to perform cruel circus activities, countless monkeys suffer incredibly and die. Animal activists in Jakarta have said the practice is cruel, and illegal. We ask the Indonesian government to stop this exploitation.

This Monkey is nursing its young child and made to have a hideous mask on her head and beg for money.

These innocent sentient beings are taught through violence & fear; nothing but cruelty. 

The training is against the law and less than half of the monkey’s that undergo the training process survive to entertain. The monkey trainers simply say that life is hard in Jakarta.

Would it matter if you knew they were treated like this? This is not isolated, this happens everyday

“One time I took my knife and sliced off the end of a hog’s nose, just like a piece of salami. The hog went crazy for a few seconds. Then it sat there looking kind of stupid. So I took a handful of salt and rubbed it on the wound. Now that hog really went nuts. It was my way of taking out frustration. Another time, there was a live hog in the pit. It hadn’t done anything wrong, wasn’t even running around. It was just alive. I took a three-foot chunk of pipe and I literally beat that hog to death. It was like I started hitting the hog and I couldn’t stop. And when I finally did stop, I’d expended all this energy and frustration, and I’m thinking what in God’s sweet name did I do.” -Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment inside the U.S. Meat Industry