PANDUANHEWAN · INDONESIA
Provincial identity animals of Indonesia
The official identity animal (mascot) of each Indonesian province, with scientific names and links to the animal guides.
Each Indonesian province has an identity plant and animal (mascot). The national guideline is Keputusan Menteri Dalam Negeri Nomor 48 Tahun 1989 tentang Pedoman Penetapan Identitas Flora dan Fauna Daerah (1 September 1989), followed by governors’ decrees. The table lists the provincial identity animals that could be verified from official or authoritative sources.
The national basis is Minister of Home Affairs Decree No. 48 of 1989 (1 September 1989) on Guidelines for Determining Regional Flora and Fauna Identity. We could not find the full text in an accessible official legal database. As a set of guidelines, it was followed by governors' decrees in several provinces, e.g. Jakarta (Governor's Decree 1796/1989), South Kalimantan (29/1990), North Sumatra (by the Governor), Yogyakarta (385/KPTS/1992), Lampung (26/2004) and West Java (27/2005). Provinces created after 1989 were not covered by the original decree; Bangka Belitung, for example, received its designation through Home Affairs Decree 522.53-958/2010. We found no official designation for the four new Papuan provinces created in 2022.
Sources: detikJateng (2024) ↗ · Sutardjana (2022), Universitas Multimedia Nusantara thesis ↗ · Kompas (2023) ↗ · Kompas (2023) ↗ · Mongabay Indonesia (2014) ↗ · Pemprov Sumatera Barat (Humas, 2017) ↗ · Hukumonline ↗ · JDIH Provinsi Lampung ↗ · BRIN Press ↗
“West Sumatra government list” means the only official source we found for that province is the all-province list published by the West Sumatra provincial government (2017); it matches Kompas (2023).
Not verified from an official source: Central Kalimantan, North Kalimantan, West Papua, South Papua, Central Papua, Highland Papua, Southwest Papua.
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