FACTS AND OPINIONS TASK

WRITTEN BY : FAIZ NAUFAL FALAH (22101050016)

A. FACTS

1. A villager found the headless, bloated body of an orangutan floating in a river in

Indonesia’s Central Kalimantan province in early 2018.
Reason : because it really happened
2. The Bornean orangutan had been shot 17 times with a pellet gun, had multiple
broken ribs, and had been decapitated with a machete.
Reason : because there was an orangutan carcass found
3. Indeed, according to a 2020 report by the scientific consultancy group Borneo
Futures and the conservation nonprofit Wildlife Impact, less than one percent of
reported orangutan-related crimes end in conviction.
Reason : because there is a time background that shows research that produces
data
4. All three species of orangutans in Indonesia—Bornean, Sumatran, and Tapanuli—
are critically endangered.
Reason : because based on data in the field that there are only a few orangutans
left
5. Two rubber farmers, who claimed they acted in self-defense, were arrested and
convicted for the illegal killing.
Reason : because certain to exist
B. OPINIONS
1. Those penalties didn’t come close to the maximum allowed.
Reason : Because that is a personal statment
2. The reason for this is simple, says Vincent Nijman, of Oxford Brookes University,
in the U.K., who has studied the orangutan trade: Indonesia’s government, like
others around the world, has decided that “wildlife is not on the top of their list”
of priorities.
Reason : Because that is believed to have happened
3. It’s “vital that law breakers are being prosecuted to the maximum extent of the
law,” he says.
Reason : Because that is a personal statment
4. And if that doesn’t happen, conservationists “should start making noise.”
Reason : Base on personal statment
5. Wildfires destroy forest too, sometimes driving orangutans into areas occupied
by people.
Reason : Because believed to have happened.

Source :
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/orangutan-killings-
unpunished-in-indonesia