They used drugged meat to sedate the tiger, then killed her, officials at the zoo claimed. "We have only just managed to arrest one of the killers," Aswini said. "He will be taken to the crime scene to try and piece together some of the events." Udin was captured at his house in the Muarojambi regency, Palembang, South Sumatra. He was a known thug and had been in jail several times before for various crimes. Aswini said preliminary investigations suggested that the attack was bankrolled by a businessman from Palembang.

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This is so very sad. I think that anybody who cares about the natural world and the increasing risk that our wildlife faces, along with the general depletion of our unique natural heritage, will be sick to the core.

Sadly, it does seem that far too many in Indonesia do not care about the state we are allowing our country to slip into.

A misunderstanding about an Indonesian dance in a TV spot, and the whole country, including our President, is almost prepared to go to war.

Some lowlife of our own kills a beautiful and rare animal for profit, which is meant to be under our protection in a zoo, and it goes by almost unnoticed.

Do we not have our principles twisted somehow?

The statement made by Didy Wurjanto, head of the Jambi natural resources conservation agency, "The cage had been left unlocked to allow zoo keepers to feed the tiger", is just complete and utter rubbish.

Why would a cage be left unlocked at night? Why would it not be the keepers themselves responsible for locking and unlocking the cage at feeding time?

At best it is total incompetence on the part of the zoo's management, and in the worst-case scenario, a complete and utter lie. I do hope that the whole truth is revealed about this awful crime.

One must question exactly which species should be caged?

Didi Karjadi
Bandung

Udin Bolu and anyone else connected to this disgraceful crime should be punished in the same way the tiger was killed. Shame on them all!

Lindsay Flakelar
Jakarta

A total disgrace to call himself a human being. He kills a national icon for only Rp 1 million.

He should be tried for treason for killing a national icon and his body hung on national TV to educate would-be morons that they will get the same punishment too.

Find the man who orchestrated this and do the same to him also! Shameless act has me so mad I threw my chair across the room, smashing my window!

Rahadi Widodo
Jakarta

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