MONKEY BUSINESS

PEOPLE watch a proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus), locally known as bekantan, eating bananas at the Mangrove and Bekantan Conservation Park (KKMB) in Tarakan, North Kalimantan, Thursday, October 20. Pertamina Hulu Indonesia, Regional 3 Zone 10 of Tarakan Field, has succeeded in increasing the proboscis monkey population from 31 to 45 this year, ramifying the tarap (Artocarpus odoratissimus) plant population to 673 trees as well sustaining 27 mangrove species in the conservation park/Antara/Galih Pradipta