young photos of monkeys begging on the roadside of Boyolali , Indonesia , have emerged online . The furry wight are tied up by their owner and often forced to wear off doll ’s heads in an attempt to earn a quick buck from pass by tourists . Not only is this creepy , it ’s downright barbarous .
alas , it ’s pretty common for primates in Southeast Asia to be forced to dress out up in unusual costume so that their captors can gain money from tourer and passers - by . The monkey are taken from the wild as babies , often while they are still suckle , and betray . Their teeth are often removed without anaesthetic before the animals are chained up and drive to learn trick like riding a miniature bicycle or smoke cigarettes .
And the horrid treatment does n’t cease there . The monkey are also tortured in decree to improve their leg strength so that they can walk like humanity . A mountain chain is tied around their necks , kept short , and bind to something nigh by . The animal then has to balance on a stone for hour – if it block off equilibrate , it will expire .
But thanks to animate being militant and former Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo , since2014the practice has been ban , and any monkeys found involved in Topeng Monyet , which stand for " dancing scamp " , are rescue . However , it appear that the exercise still takes place illicitly .
Jakarta Animal help connection(JAAN ) in Indonesia has been running campaigns to focus on the exploitation of monkeys drive to harbour tourer since 2009 . The animals are sometimes rented to street children to help them make money , although these children are often exploited by the monkeys ' possessor .
Other worrying factor include the dreaded condition in which the animals are restrain . JAAN has antecedently reported that20 percentof the monkeys they rescue have T.B. , while some person have been found to have hepatitis or swamp fever , believe to have been caught from humans . The imp can then glide by it on to people who derive into middleman with them .
Despite the late crackdown on Topeng Monyet , it ’s clear that the cruel usance of do monkeys is still a very real outcome in Indonesia .
