The largest crocodile breeding in Indonesia in Medan City, North Sumatra Province, is affected by a coronavirus pandemic.

The 1,000 estuarine crocodiles that are kept in cages are threatened with death because managers are afraid of not being able to provide food.

During the pandemic, this crocodile breeding was closed to visitors. As a result, there is no cash income from ticket sales.

This has an impact on money for buying crocodile food. Forced, because the manager lacked money, crocodiles were reduced by their food rations.

If crocodiles here eat every day, now due to the pandemic thousands of crocodiles can only eat once a week.

The owner of the Crocodile Breeding Lim Hui Cu said, the need for crocodile food money was taken from ticket money when a visitor came.

Now that it was closed in early March due to a pandemic, visitors did not come. The crocodile is starving.

Lim Hui Cu could only surrender to this situation, he hoped everything would return to normal and the captivity he had pioneered with his husband since 1959 could proceed normally as before.


Interview: Lim Hui Cu / Owner of Crocodile Breeding


Ask: How long have there been no visitors?

"It's been two months,"

Ask: During the pandemic did visitors come?

"There is no,"

Ask: How many crocodiles are there?

"There are over 1,000 crocodiles"

Ask: What year of captivity is this from?
 
"1959"

Ask: How much does it cost to eat crocodiles a day?

"One day of savings can be five hundred thousand rupiahs, it has been greatly saved,"

Ask: Where does the source of funds come from?

"There are visitors coming and buying ducks then feeding crocodiles here, it also helps us. As long as there are no visitors, we are very difficult to meet the cost of food, "

Ask: Is there a reduction in food rations?

"Yes, we reduced the food ration, we were forced to give it only once a week,"

Ask: Are there any tricks if this pandemic lasts long?

"We can not think until there, the crocodiles want to die, yes it's up, we take care of ourselves alone is enough. What else can I do, I don't know to take care of all of this, can I still or not, only I hope and pray every day so that the plague will disappear quickly and be able to return to normal, just what we can try to maintain, sometimes if the bird falls it can eat. crocodile, but if I deliberately catch the bird I can't have the heart, he is also an animal, I can't have the heart, "


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