Macacaque Park to be completed

Macacaque Park to be completed

JAKARTA: Construction of the two-hectare primate park within
the Schmutzer Primate Center in Ragunan Zoo, South Jakarta, is
expected to be completed early on August.

The park, according to zoo director Edy Setiarto, will also be
equipped with a health clinic for primates.

Taman Makaka (Macacaque Park) is the third project jointly
managed by the zoo and the primate center's Gibbon Foundation.

The park may be the biggest of its kind in the world.

Taman Makaka already boasts a gorilla enclosure and the
Primates Tunnel, an educational walk which allows visitors to
view models of other animals and read the various articles
displayed on its walls.

"The design of the park deters contact between humans and
animals, so it will be more like their original habitat," Edy
said as quoted by the city's official website Beritajakarta on
Saturday.

"The completion of the park will be a present for both
Jakarta's 477th anniversary which falls on June 22 and the 59th
anniversary of the country's independence on Aug. 17," he
added. -- JP