The Tiger Roar Campaign

Untuk mendukung kampanye global “Year of Tiger 2010” yang berlangsung hingga Februari 2011, WWF telah meluncurkan kampanye onlineuntuk upaya penyelamatan harimau di dunia bertajuk “Tiger roar campaign.” Setiap staf WWF di seluruh dunia dan publik digerakkan untuk menyuarakan kepedulian mereka terhadap harimau dengan cara “mengaum.”

Tiger 'Papercraft'

Video ini dibuat oleh Lely Puspitasari, salah Tiger Ambassador WWF, yang akan mengikuti Youth Tiger Summit di Russia dalam waktu dekat. Lely Puspitasari, membuat video ini saat maju ke babak final pemilihan Tiger Ambassador WWF pada bulan Juli 2010 lalu.

Police detain members of illegal tiger trading syndicate on Sumatra Island, Indonesia

On Saturday, June 17, 2010 a police unit detained two people involved in an illegal trading syndicate focused on the Sumatran tiger in Pekanbaru, Riau Province of Sumatra, Indonesia.


Yoga Rusdiansyah (26) and Hidayat Saldi (45) are under investigation after Yoga was caught in possession of six decapitated tiger heads, five tiger pelts and seven kilograms of tiger bones. The tiger body parts were set to be exported to Malaysia.

According to Sapta Marpaung from the Pekanbaru Police Department, Yoga has become the main suspect after being caught in possession of the evidence, while Hidayat’s role is still under further investigation. The tiger body parts were sent from the Northern Sumatran city of Medan. Yoga was to hand over the package to a middleman for cleaning of the parts and shipping to Malaysia. The whereabouts of the middleman are currently unknown.

WINNERS OF WWF TIGER AMBASSADORS to Represent Indonesia to Youth Tiger Summit in Vladivostok, Russia.

From the 6th finalists, the board of judges has decided to choose Amalia Anindia (20 years old) and Lely Puspitasari (20 years old) as WWF Tiger Ambassadors and they will represent Indonesia at Youth Tiger Summit 2010, Vladivostok, Russia Far East.

Amalia Anindia and Lely Puspitasari are chosen based on their high creativities and ideas, public speaking skills, organizational and networking skills, fluent in English and good substantial knowledge. WWF-Indonesia CONGRATS both winners and read their short biographies below:

Lely Puspitasari was born in Ponorogo, East Java, on August 20, 1990. She participated in several English speech competitions such as speech competition held by University of Malang. She also joined AFS Intercultural Program in Malang, East Java. Currently, Lely is registered as undergraduate student at Forestry Faculty of Gajah Mada University, Yogyakarta, majoring in forestry product technology. Although forestry science is her focus of study, Lely also has skills to produce video and is interested with online media development. Lely hopes that becoming WWF Tiger Ambassador can open many opportunities for her adding up her knowledge and networks to campaigning about Sumatran tiger conservation amongst youngsters– as she added, “in creative and fun ways, of course!” In her final presentation, she submitted two videos she made herself titled: "Save Tiger" and "Tiger Paper Craft"

Amalia Anindia was born in Jakarta on March 7th, 1990. Currently, Amalia is a student of Forestry Faculty of Gajah Mada University, Yogyakarta, majoring in Forest Resource Conservation. Since her teenage, she’s been actively participated in national and international youth conferences and now she joins a forestry student association in her college. She was invited to be an observer in UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC ) COP 15 at Copenhagen, Denmark in 2009. Her public speaking skill and endless admiration on biodiversity and environment become Amalia’s main asset as WWF Tiger Ambassador to start campaigning about Sumatran tiger and its habitat conservation with WWF-Indonesia. Amalia also submitted a short video in her final presentation titled: "Lost of The Tigers"

Youth Tiger Summit

The main goal of the Summit is to develop a Youth Declaration on tiger conservation, which will be presentated to the Heads of Government Tiger Summit, via video-conference between Vladivostok and St. Petersburg on November 2010.

The International Youth Tiger Summit – is another attempt to draw people's attention to the importance of conservation of the Amur tiger and other rare species, as well as to convey to all the idea that in order to save our planet everyone must help.
The young professionals attending the Youth Summit as delegates, will be in Vladivostok in the end of November. They will visit the tiger habitat and tiger trails, get first-hand information on the state of the wild population and the necessary measures for its conservation.