cupang(fighting fish)

How they behave
The males will fight each other and can't be put together. They will also nip (bite) the fins of some fish. The females sometimes fight but can be kept in groups.

good news for jakarta

in jakarta post ,the news is that jakarta was now the 4th cleanets city in asia and it reach the 10th- lowest pm10 level of the 20 city studied and also the the fifth cleanest of the southeast city even in the 2004 study by the bank that jakarta was the 3rd most polluted city in the world after mexico city and bangkok . by the result the USAID and swiss contract revealed 70% of the total pollution of the city which make jakarta very polluted , so congrats jakarta .. and i hope surabaya will be next.

Coral Reefs Restoration

Now, people restore project in Nusa Dia (that was the center of the restoration)and it was start to do the project starting from now. The project was inviting fisherman, tourist and several organization to join restoring the coral reefs. some participant donate $500 dollar to make the restoration and there was 16 submarine reefs and each of them have 20 pieces of transplanted corals. The submarine was a man made project for the transplanted reefs. A volunteer diver, dive 8 meter deep to attach the coral on every ground.

tiger poaching in Indonesia

tigers poaching in Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park was rife before 2002 which was quite alarming.The island is the only place where the Sumatran tiger lives in the wild. It is endangered because of poaching and habitat destruction.forest rangers and environmental groups had worked hard to reduce the number of tiger killings in and around the park.Poaching and pressure from a growing human population pose the greatest risk to the two protected areas where they live.

Mining in Indonesia are used for crimes too

some people in Indonesia doesn't permit to the governer if they are mining for golds. Newmont said that it's equity gold sales from the Batu Hijau mine in the first nine months of 2009 reached 171,000 ounces, up from 83,000 ounces sold in the same period last year. Copper sales from Batu Hijau mine, reached until 154 million pounds from 90 millions pounds in the same time of year. And, consolidated coppers sales reach until 342 pounds from 201 million pounds at the same year (2008)

LOSING ANIMAL HABITAT

These people are trading these animal to another country in asia, not only asia, they also export it from sumatra through jakarta then to another places in this world
For instance, they said, some 100,000 cockatoos are captured in Papua every year, including kakatua raja.
They said that 95 percent of endangered animals traded on the illegal market were captured in the wild.
Also, all primates offered on the market had not been bred but captured in their natural habitat, they said.

most of spesies all over Indonesia was captured only for money, these people open an illegal market at a small place that people could not find/ can't know what did they do...
In Maluku, 15,000 birds -- including white cockatoos and the rare kakatua seram birds were then shipped to illegal bird traders in Jakarta or smuggled to Singapore.

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2005/02/01/no-slowing-down-illegal-trade-endangered-animals.html

Overfishing

The president of Indonesia, SBY, came to a meeting about coral reefs and fisheries protection. Many people destroyed coral reefs and that ruined the food chain in the ocean and people do it because they wanted to catch the fishes. SBY tried to stop that problem because over 120 million peoples livelihood arev depend at fishes. SBY stimulused 73.3 trillion to help the ocean and economy growth.