Target: Listyo Sigit Prabowo, Chief of the Indonesian National Police, Jakarta, Indonesia
Goal: Ensure all lawful penalties against those allegedly responsible for filming and selling videos of tortured long-tailed macaques.
Cruelty no longer needs a hidden location when a camera and an internet connection can turn suffering into a product. This case centers not on a single act of violence, but on an alleged organized operation that created and sold extreme abuse of protected wildlife to customers around the world.
The Social Media Animal Cruelty Coalition (SMACC) has allegedly documented a network operating out of Jakarta that captures, films, and monetizes the torture of long-tailed macaques. According to investigators, the abuse was customized to fulfill requests from paying clients communicating through encrypted messaging platforms and paying in cryptocurrency. Conservation officials warn the operation may intersect with the broader illegal wildlife trade, allowing this kind of exploitation to spread across borders while generating illicit profit. Law enforcement is tracing digital evidence and IP addresses, but no arrests have been finalized and no court has determined criminal liability.
If the evidence supports these allegations, the people behind this shouldn’t be treated as isolated bad actors — they would be participants in a sophisticated enterprise profiting from prolonged animal suffering while hiding behind the anonymity of modern technology. Real accountability requires not just prosecuting whoever is ultimately identified, but sustained cooperation between law enforcement, technology companies, and international partners to shut down the digital infrastructure that allegedly enables this abuse.
PETITION LETTER:
Dear Chief Prabowo,
An investigation into a potential animal cruelty network has raised serious concern because it describes organized animal cruelty allegedly carried out for commercial gain, not isolated misconduct. Long-tailed macaques may have been subjected to repeated abuse while recordings were produced for paying online audiences.
Investigators continue tracing digital communications, financial transactions, and other electronic evidence to identify who may have participated in or financed this operation. The allegations against anyone eventually named remain subject to due process and should be evaluated through comprehensive digital, financial, and forensic investigation.
Please ensure this investigation receives every available resource and that, if the evidence supports the allegations, every participant in this network — organizers, distributors, and direct perpetrators alike — is held fully accountable under Indonesian law. Vulnerable wildlife should not be exploited for profit on online platforms.
Sincerely,
[Your Name Here]
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