Andalas Meets His Sweetheart

A Sumatran rhino from America returns home. Tempo follows his journey from Jakarta to Lampung.

March 6, 2007

ANDALAS is returning to his ancestral land, Sumatra. The rhinoceros born at the Cincinnati Zoo in the United States five and a half years ago will have to undergo an exhausting journey: flying for two days and nights, a ferry crossing, and then confined in a container truck for a night during the overland journey from Jakarta to Lampung.

The rhinos name is indeed Andalas. He was still drowsy upon landing at the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport

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