Indonesia Illegal Wildlife Trade Data 2018-2022

Data from the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK), processed by the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS), shows that the number of cases of illegal hunting or trade of protected plants and animals (TSL) has fluctuated over the past five years.

The compiled case data represents files that have been declared complete or P21 by the Attorney General.

In 2018, 41 cases of illegal TSL trade were processed legally.

This number then increased significantly to 65 cases in 2019. The number of cases in that year was the highest caught and legally processed during 2018-2022.

Then, in 2020, it decreased to 48 cases. The following years also saw a decrease: 38 cases in 2021 and 35 cases in 2022.

Indonesia: The Largest Exporter of Wild Animals

Indonesia is the world's largest exporter of wild animals. This is recorded in the research report *International Socioeconomic Inequality Drives Trade Patterns in the Global Wildlife Market*, compiled by Jia Huan Liew et al., a research team from Hong Kong and Singapore (May 2021).

According to the report, during the period 1998-2018, Indonesia exported approximately 71 million wild animals to dozens of countries, the highest compared to other exporting countries.

Jia Huan Liew et al. obtained these figures from the database of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), an international convention related to the control of trade in wild animals and plants.

CITES contains commitments to protect approximately 1,500 animal species and approximately 900 plant species. However, the data recorded here is limited to 12 groups of endangered animals that are most widely traded globally.

These animal groups include several types of birds, fish, shellfish, amphibians, *anthozoa* (such as anemones, soft and hard corals), *arachnida* (spiders and scorpions), *hydrozoa* (such as jellyfish and fire corals), insects, mammals (such as orangutans), reptiles, sharks/rays, and snails.