In Indonesia's West Sumatra, there is a "university" devoted entirely to the training of monkeys.

Footage from September 10, 2019, shows the controversial training of a monkey to pick coconuts in a controlled environment. The monkey is seen with a metal collar and chained to a man, monitoring the monkey, who is twisting heavy coconuts.

At present, the STIB has dozens of monkey "pupils" and four "graduated" monkeys.

The Beruk College of Sciences (STIB) was established in the city of Pariaman in early 2019, to help coconut farmers in plantations. As the largest producer of coconuts in the province of West Sumatra, the "university" has strong support from the Pariaman City Government.

Director General of Regional Autonomy of the Indonesian Ministry of Home Affairs, Akmal Malik visited STIB on February 18, 2020, and according to a press release published on the local authorities' website, fed the monkeys that were resting at the monkey house.

The Head of STIB, Hamidul Adhar, said: "At this university the monkeys are taught how to pick coconuts, rotating coconuts quickly. After a while, monkeys become good at picking and dropping coconuts, and become skilled at climbing coconut trunks after four to six months."

Hamidul added: "Monkeys who have successfully graduated from the "university" can pick between 500 to 1,000 coconuts per day at Rp 100,000 per coconut."

Similar establishments exist elsewhere, including in Thailand where PETA conducted an investigation.

PETA revealed that monkeys in Thailand "are kept chained, abusively trained, and forced to climb trees to pick coconuts that are used to make coconut milk, meat, flour, oil, and other products."

In their investigation, PETA also found that "many monkeys are illegally abducted from their families and homes when they’re just babies. They’re fitted with rigid metal collars and kept chained or tethered for extended periods."

The organisation also said: "The terrified young monkeys are forced to perform frustrating and difficult tasks, such as twisting heavy coconuts until they fall off the trees from a great height. An investigator learned that if monkeys try to defend themselves, their canine teeth may be pulled.

"To earn more money off these animals, some trainers also force them to participate in circus-style shows in which they entertain paying visitors by riding bicycles, shooting basketballs, and performing other confusing and demeaning tricks."

The monkey university or Minang language discussed native to the province of West Sumatra, "Beruk" only exists in the city of Pariaman, the province of West Sumatra, Indonesia.

The university was given the name "HIGH SCHOOL OF BERUK SCIENCE (STIB)" which was inaugurated in early 2019. meanwhile, the University is strongly supported by the Pariaman city government where monkeys or "hoe" become one of the animals that are used by Pariaman residents to take coconuts which are triggered by the Pariaman city area to be the largest producer of coconuts in the province of West Sumatra, Indonesia.

Head of STIB hamidul Adhar said "At this university the monkeys were taught picking coconuts, rotating coconuts quickly, long time monkeys were unable to do anything until they were good at picking and dropping coconuts and skilled at climbing coconut trunks took 4 months to 6 months only " .

In addition, Hamidul added, "monkeys who have successfully graduated from the university can work up to picking coconut fruits on their stems up to 500 to 1,000 coconuts per day and the ravines that pass the lease will be high at Rp 100,000 per coconut'.

At present the STIB already has dozens of monkey pupils who are going to study and have graduated 4 monkeys, while the STIB itself has not been able to determine the cost of monkey schools on the campus, the STIB has only received aladadarnya fees from the monkey owner who wants to train at the university .

This video was recorded on September 10, 2019.