The Protection of Endangered Animals under Indonesian Legal

System:
The Case of Illegal Poaching for Trade
Hanna Nur Afifah Yogar (hannanurafifahyogar@gmail.com)
Muhammad Hari Adipurna (hariadipurna@yahoo.com)
Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta
Jl. Lingkar Selatan, Kasihan, Bantul, Yogyakarta, Indonesia 55183
Phone: +62-274-387656 ext. 336

As a country with humongous-biodiversity, Indonesia has a great deal of natural resources.

Consisting of plant natural resources (plants) and animal natural resources (animals). According
to World Wildlife Fund (WWF) of Indonesia, Indonesia is estimated has about 20% of
mammals, 16% of reptiles and amphibians, 17% of birds, 25% of fish, all of them are inhabit the
nature of this country. Unfortunately, as huge advantages as huge threat against them. At least
we will find two main underlie causes towards the wild animals in Indonesia. First, habitat loss
due to the high rate of deforestation second is illegal poaching for trade. However, between these
issues are linkages one another, and automatically, these problems will be disrupting and resulted
damage. Even though Indonesia will front some obstacles towards this matter, but interlinked
with those facts, the Government of Indonesia has to consider improving the wild animal
protection neither by strengthening the legal system nor supervising, controlling and increasing
the function of animal conservation as well. It will become the biggest concern which relates to
the track record of the illegal poaching for trade’s overcoming by Indonesia’s Government.

Key words: Endangered animal, Illegal Poaching, Illegal Trading, Indonesia’s Animal Protection