A school employee in Serpong, South Tangerang, has become public enemy number 1 among cat lovers in Indonesia after he boasted about stomping on a mother cat in a viral video.
The video, which was filmed earlier this month just outside the school, showed a school official in a maroon shirt, identified by his initial FY, and Mulyadi, who heads the school’s security staff, engaged in a heated debate while they were standing over what looked like a dead cat.
FY was not happy that Mulyadi had failed to keep school premises free of stray cats, while Mulyadi was incensed that FY was so cruel as to have tortured the cat that was lying before them.
“I didn’t torture it, I killed it,” FY told Mulyadi in the video.
The cat recently had four kittens, which FY reportedly placed inside a box and tossed into a nearby sewer, though that incident played out off-camera.
Luckily, though FY believed that he killed the cat, Mulyadi later told reporters that the cat was only knocked out when FY stomped on her.
“The cat didn’t die, she only passed out. This is my testimony as the person in that video. The cat was gone after the incident, but she appeared again the next day,” Mulyadi said, adding that her four kittens were adopted by residents in the neighborhood.
Though the video was recorded on March 9, it went viral over the weekend, after which FY became the target of a massive doxxing campaign on social media. Amid the public outrage towards FY, animal activist groups such as the Jakarta Animal Aid Network (JAAN) have publicly condemned his actions.
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The Serpong sub-precinct has launched an enquiry into the incident and has questioned FY and Mulyadi, but no criminal charges have been filed against the former as of publication time.
