Police institution in Samarinda, East Borneo Province, prohibiting turtle eggs sell-buy transaction, authorities provide deadline up to March 18 for turtle egg sellers to stop their activities.
Turtles is a protected animal, according to No. 5 of 1990 Law of Natural Resources and Ecosystems Conservation.
Samarinda police chief, Prapto Arif Santoso, said the turles eggs for sale ban is an initiative from police institution, not because of pressure from any quarter.
Therefore, turtle eggs sale activities has violated applicable laws that concerning for natural resources and ecosystem conservation.
There is a tolerance time given to the egg sellers until March 18, just to give opportunity to sellers to spend their deposited turtle eggs. However, if they exceeds the time limit, the offender will immediately arrested and processed accordance by applicable rules.
In optimizing this prohibition, Samarinda police had socialized and send prohibition letter to egg seller for stoping turtle eggs buy-sell activities. There are some traders has signed a statement to fullfill ban time limit.
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