REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, REJANGLEBONG - Police Resort of Rejanglebong in Bengkulu secured two man selling Sumatran tiger's skin. Head of Criminal in Rejanglebong Police, Margopo said both were arrested on Tuesday around 5.00 PM when doing transaction with undercover police officers.
"Jon is from Lubuk Belimbing village and Sar is a resident of Sukarami village," Margopo said about the perpetrators, recently.
Sumatran tiger's skin itself was originally to be sold at price of 17 million IDR. To the police officers, they said they got the tiger’s skin from protected forest area in West Sumatra. They caught tiger after settiing the snare trap a week earlier. After tiger was trapped, they killed it with weapon.