[1] Indonesia's Criminal Code prohibits intentionally causing an animal unnecessary harm.
Livestock transportation and slaughter are to be conducted so that animals are free from fear, pressure, and torture.
[4] Only 2% of Indonesia's broiler farms are fully closed houses equipped with automated food and water systems and climate control.
[3] De-beaking, de-toeing, tail-docking, tooth pulling, castration, and dehorning of livestock without anaesthetic are legal, as is confinement in gestation crates and battery cages.
Other animals sold in the "pet meat" trade include cats, rabbits, bats, rats, pigs, and snakes.
Footage of pet meat markets shows dogs being clubbed to death or burned alive with blow torches[5] Local animal rights groups on Java Island Animal Friends Jogja (AFJ) and Jakarta Animal Aid Network (JAAN) have campaigned for the last few years to end the dog meat trade in Indonesia.
During Jakarta Fashion week in 2013, Cruelty Free International and The Body Shop, along with hundreds of supporters, called on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to ban testing cosmetics on animals (ASEAN is responsible for regulating animal cosmetics testing in Indonesia and nine other Southeast Asian countries).
The most common method of killing strays is strychnine poisoning, which has been condemned by animal welfare advocates for being severely painful.