Jakarta, ID
Sunday, May 27 2012, 09:14 AM

Opinion

SMS: Sumatran tigers

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Your opinion on the release of Sumatran tigers in Lampung forest sparking unrest among villagers, who refused to be relocated to other areas.

Most protected forests have been destroyed and it is the place where the animals live. Therefore, the problem of Sumatran tiger invasion appears.

It is a must for the local government to seriously carry out forest and tiger conservation projects by rejecting bribes from illegal loggers. The law should also be upheld to protect local people from any disaster.
HENI
Tangerang, Banten

 

In this case, our government should protect the animals from extinction, but we also don't want the villagers to become the victims.
YURLENI LUBIS
Bekasi, West Java

It is a matter of habitats and ecosystems. The unbalanced ecosystem created by human beings to fulfill their greed, rather than to meet their needs, has caused the destruction of habitats of wild animal such as Sumatran tigers.

The forestry ministry is responsible for providing the species' habitats by administering right policy to punish the wrong doer with maximal penalty.
ROY
Jakarta

 

Indonesia has serious problems with the habitats of its diverse wild animals due to intensive deforestation. In the future, we should have special areas designed to be the habitats of certain animals, such as tigers, to save them from extinction.
DEDE LESMANA ELO
Tangerang, Banten

 

A lack of control in implementing forest preservation projects has caused large parts of forests to be converted into plantations and new villages, by companies and migrant people.

As a result, wild animals, including tigers, jostle their lives to smaller areas and then they must look for their food in other areas, threatening nearby villagers.

Of course, this gives villagers and hunters the chance to kill these endangered animals for security reasons. In the future, the government must tightly control violators of the law, and if someone is proven guilty, punish them severely.
ABDUL RAHIM
Tengerang, Banten

It is natural that the release of two Sumatran tigers in Lampung forest caused trouble to the villagers. The solution is to shoot the tigers with a tranquilizer gun and keep the animals in the zoos.
B. FAMILA
Pontianak, West Kalimantan

 

It is important to prevent the extinction of Sumatran tigers, but it also important to make sure that villagers won't be threatened by the presence of the animals. I think, bridging or making a border by using a wall or something preventing the tiger from passing could be helpful.
MARCO
Jakarta

 

Lampung people were pushed aside by transmigration from Java. Now they are pushed aside by animal relocation programs. Do they have to form a separatist movement before Indonesian people address their grievances?
RAHMAD DESMI
Jakarta