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Animal lovers protest UI’s control of strays
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Animal lovers are protesting the University of Indonesia's measures to “cleanse” the Depok campus of stray dogs and cats. (Shutterstock/-)
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change.org petition protesting University of Indonesia (UI) rector Muhammad Anis’s measures to “cleanse” the Depok campus of stray dogs and cats has attracted almost 7,000 signatures within a day.
The creator of the petition, Iin Sofjan, made it in response to a Facebook posting from animal lovers group Garda Satwa Indonesia, which said that UI had again taken stray cats and dogs away from the campus in an attempt to control their numbers.
“The four-legged animals were caught, put in sacks and tranquilized,” the petition says.
The Garda post from Aug. 8 says that one of the dogs that was tranquilized and taken away was not a stray but belonged to a campus security guard.
The petition urges the university to cooperate with animal lover communities on campus to conduct regular sterilization and adoption programs.
UI’s technical unit of work and environment safety and health said they appreciated the animal lovers’ concerns but said the measures were taken in response to a student being bitten by a dog.
They said the operation was carried out in cooperation with the South Jakarta Maritime, Agriculture and Food Resilience Agency.
“We have carried out control operations three times since 2015. The caught animals are given to the agency and put into a quarantine facility. If the animals are declared healthy, we put them into an adoption program,” a press release read. (evi)
