Cows being sold for Idul Adha in Indonesia. Credit: Wiendietry Rusli
With Idul Adha, the Feast of Sacrifice, coming up on Oct. 4, it’s that time of the years when Jakarta’s vacant lots and empty sidewalks become makeshift cow and goat showrooms for people looking to purchase a sacrificial animal for the holiday.
But the Central Jakarta administration is putting a stop to it this year. As reported in The Jakarta Globe, the city’s government announced that they would be enforcing a 2007 regional law on public order that allows them to stop animal sellers from touting their sacrificial beasts wherever they please.
Acting Central Jakarta Mayor Rustam Effendi said, “We prohibit the sale [of animals] on sidewalks and in parks. It’s OK if they [the sellers] conduct their business in other places.”
The administration has already cracked down on sellers in Tanah Abang, which is usually a veritable animal farm around this time of the year.
Rustam explained the administrations reasons for the ban succinctly. “[Their activities usually] make the city smell bad and look like a slum.”
Animal vendors looking to move hooves will be forced to take up other tactics, such as using pretty sales promotion girls to sell their sacrificial animals, a practice that is still totally cool.
Source: The Jakarta Globe
