Wahyoe Boediwardhana
Four primates in Indonesia have been included on the list of 25 primates across the world on the brink of extinction.
The four primates are the Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii), Siau tarsius (Tarsius tumpara), the Javan slow loris (Nycticebus javanicus) and Simakubo or pig-tailed langur (Simias concolor).
ProFauna Indonesia chairman Rosek Nursahid said that the International Union for Conservation of Nature had been warning of the matter from as far back as 2000, but there had been no serious response from the government to protect the animals.
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