# Indonesian animal news: the latest on wildlife and conservation

> The latest Indonesian animal news: forest fires and orangutans, wildlife trafficking, rabies, elephants and protected species. Written in depth with legal and conservation context, every fact sourced.

Source: https://panduanhewan.org/en/news/ · Updated 1 October 2026 · English · Bahasa Indonesia: https://panduanhewan.org/id/berita/
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- 2026-10-01 — [Sumatran tiger in Beutong Ateuh: villagers live without conflict](https://panduanhewan.org/en/news/sumatran-tiger-beutong-ateuh-coexistence/): Sumatran tigers and the people of Beutong Ateuh Banggalang in Nagan Raya, Aceh, live side by side without conflict, Mongabay Indonesia reported on 1 October 2026. Residents of the four villages, on a wildlife corridor between the Leuser Ecosystem and Ulu Masen, look after the forest and do not hunt wildlife. Elsewhere in Sumatra, tiger conflict in 2026 has killed two people in Riau.
- 2026-10-01 — [Indonesia forest fires 2026: 53 orangutans among 100 animals rescued](https://panduanhewan.org/en/news/indonesia-forest-fires-2026-wildlife/): In the Indonesia forest fires 2026 season, the Ministry of Forestry had rescued 100 wild animals in six priority provinces by 22 September, 53 of them orangutans in Kalimantan; eight animals died. In West Kalimantan alone, the conservation agency (BKSDA) had rescued 43 orangutans, 12 pangolins and 4 leopard cats by 30 September 2026, with fires still burning in Ketapang and Kayong Utara.
- 2026-10-01 — [Binturong mistaken for a palm civet in Pekalongan, Java](https://panduanhewan.org/en/news/binturong-mistaken-for-palm-civet-pekalongan/): A binturong (Arctictis binturong), a protected species, wandered into a garden in Dukuh Sikucing, Yosorejo village, Petungkriyono district, Pekalongan regency, Central Java, at about 01.00 local time (WIB) on Tuesday 29 September 2026. The resident first took it for a luwak, the common palm civet. Once identified, the binturong was handed over that afternoon to the Pemalang office of the Central Java conservation agency (BKSDA) for health checks and observation.
- 2026-10-01 — [Chattering lory and 57 other seized animals sent home to North Maluku](https://panduanhewan.org/en/news/chattering-lory-58-seized-animals-returned-north-maluku/): Thirty-five chattering lory parrots and 23 other wild animals seized or found at a ferry port have been sent back to North Maluku, where most of them come from, by the North Sulawesi conservation agency (BKSDA Sulut), whose head described the operation on Monday 28 September 2026. Most are protected parrots that had been treated at a wildlife rescue centre and tested negative for avian influenza.
- 2026-10-01 — [Songbird trade in Indonesia: 2,775 wild birds seized from a bus](https://panduanhewan.org/en/news/songbird-trade-indonesia-2775-wild-birds-seized-bakauheni/): In a new case for officials tackling the songbird trade in Indonesia, a joint patrol at Bakauheni port, South Lampung, found 2,775 wild birds in an intercity bus's luggage hold on the evening of Saturday 26 September 2026. The birds, of 18–19 types, were heading from Sumatra to Java without health certificates or transport permits, and were released on 27 September 2026.
- 2026-10-01 — [Komodo National Park quota: 2026 cap used up, 500 visitors a day](https://panduanhewan.org/en/news/komodo-national-park-quota-2026-500-visitors-a-day/): The Komodo National Park quota for 2026, 365,000 visits, was used up by August, so the park authority (Balai Taman Nasional Komodo) has set a daily quota of 500 visitors, reviewed periodically, for September to December 2026 under a notice signed on 22 September 2026. Visitors must arrive on the date on their SiOra e-ticket, and the port authority closed tourist sailings to Komodo and Padar islands on 9–10 September because of high waves.
- 2026-10-01 — [Sumatran elephant Diego dies at Minas training centre, Riau](https://panduanhewan.org/en/news/sumatran-elephant-diego-dies-minas-training-centre/): Sumatran elephant Diego, a 17-year-old tame male, died at the Minas Elephant Training Centre (PLG Minas) in Siak Regency, Riau, at midday on 16 September 2026 after several days of intensive care by vets from the Riau conservation agency (BBKSDA Riau). A necropsy pointed to a chronic digestive-tract infection; organ samples are still being tested. He was the second elephant to die at PLG Minas in six weeks, after Jovi on 3 August.
- 2026-10-01 — [Whale shark stranded in Jembrana, Bali, dies and is buried](https://panduanhewan.org/en/news/whale-shark-stranded-jembrana-bali/): A whale shark stranded at Pengeragoan beach in Pekutatan district, Jembrana, Bali, on Saturday 12 September 2026: residents found the male, about 8 metres long, in shallow water that morning. It was still alive but very weak, and died as the tide went out. A joint team necropsied it and buried it near the beach at about 17.30 local time (WITA).
- 2026-10-01 — [Rabies in Bali 2026: 52,645 bites and 7 deaths by September](https://panduanhewan.org/en/news/rabies-in-bali-2026-cases-deaths/): Rabies in Bali 2026 figures from the provincial health office show 52,645 bites by rabies-carrying animals and seven deaths between January and 11 September, with Badung the regency reporting the most bites. By late September only 56% of Tabanan's dogs had been vaccinated, rabid dogs had been confirmed in Jembrana and Bangli, and in Bima regency, West Nusa Tenggara, one person had died out of 312 bite cases.
- 2026-10-01 — [Baby orangutans found in India: Indonesia seeks return from Odisha](https://panduanhewan.org/en/news/baby-orangutans-found-in-india-odisha/): Five baby orangutans found in India on 8 September 2026, in a forest in Odisha's Balasore district, are now in quarantine at Nandankanan Zoological Park in Bhubaneswar. Indonesia's Ministry of Forestry suspects they are Sumatran orangutans smuggled across borders and, on 10 September 2026, began working with India's CITES authority to bring them home, pending DNA tests.
- 2026-10-01 — [Indonesia national red list: what it is and progress in 2026](https://panduanhewan.org/en/news/indonesia-national-red-list/): Indonesia's national red list is a ranking of how threatened the country's species are, compiled by the Ministry of Forestry with the IUCN Red List method; the plan was announced on 4 September 2025 with a five-year timeframe. During 2026 assessments have moved group by group with the IUCN SSC Indonesia Species Specialist Group (IdSSG): national results for the macaque genus Macaca were published on 16 February 2026, and a gibbon workshop was held in Bogor from 31 March to 3 April 2026. The official target is 50 species assessed nationally by the end of 2029.
- 2026-10-01 — [Sumatran elephant deaths in August 2026: what we know](https://panduanhewan.org/en/news/sumatran-elephant-deaths-august-2026/): Sumatran elephant deaths came in quick succession in August 2026, with at least five recorded: Jovi at PLG Minas, Riau (3 August); a wild male in an Aceh Tamiang oil-palm plantation, suspected poisoned (found 9 August); the calf Yuna at PLG Saree, Aceh (11 August); a premature calf in East Aceh (14 August); and a calf in Tebo, Jambi (reported 24 August). The headless elephant in Pelalawan died in February 2026 and that case is in court; the 23 deaths reported in Tesso Nilo cover 2015 to June 2025.