Beruk and Karma

Beruk is a short-tailed primate that still exists in the forests of Aceh. For the planters, he was considered a pest, for example. This little beruk, he was snared with a trap set up by a citizen in the garden a few months ago, brought home and chained his neck like a prisoner of war.

I think he is nothing more than an animal snared for feeding, surviving in a human garden with his group because the forest no longer guarantees that they live with enough fruit. meaning the animal was forced to steal because of hunger. like a man, this captured Beat is like a thief picked up while stealing.

Indeed, residents also suffered losses due to pests. but it must be admitted that humans are destroying their food webs. the incident made the conflict beruk with humans will not disappear. They (Beruk) still "fight" to get a cob of corn, a cucumber, papaya or a bunch of bananas.

This littleBeruk I portrait behind the house of a resident in Lhokseumawe two days ago. chained to a wooden pole without food, the chain was just over one meter long, only to the extent that the space of Beruk from the stake.

I feel sad, that little Primate is like asking me to take a snare around his neck.

When I was there, a little boy appeared beside me. it seems like the poor owner of Beruk. the boy's estimate was the size of my youngest child, he crouched and looked happy with the candy legs in his mouth.

Suddenly flashed about "Karma" in my mind. the law of God rewarded in the world according to the bad deeds of men, even worse. imagine a god like a similar trap attached to the human neck, not fed until pleading for liberation. imagine the children of human beings chained just like the Little Bear, for how sad if that happened. the animals turned violent punishing humans as I had in mind at the time.

This paper is just a message, that animals have free instinct in the wild, just as the right of man to nature belongs to God. the small beast is only one of thousands of portraits of human and animal feuds that end up sometime.

Regards