Elephant

Tulus, a well-known singer in Indonesia once sang a song called "Gajah" (elephant), one of his beautiful songs from the same title as its album, which was released in 2014. The song tells us about his struggle when he was younger who was often called elephant, because of his appearance who they said to be a resemblance of this beautiful creature. He then also used this song to promote a campaign about elephant: #JanganBunuhGajah, especially Sumatran Elephants which face extinction, collaborating with WWF Indonesia. Being one of those people who also (claim) to fight for animals right (I haven't done much really), I started to post some contents to my Facebook page and Twitter about elephants, in order to raise people's awareness about the wildlife animals.

I consider myself to be a rookie in this field, heck I even just started to dig more about elephant, their behaviour, their true nature, their population, and what danger faces them. A couple of years ago I went to Kinantan Zoo alone, to see this wildlife park in Bukittinggi and how their (animals) wellbeing. It's sad that instead of roaming free in their natural habitat, they stayed and forced to live in a cage to amuse us humans. What hurts me is when I stumbled upon the elephant area, I saw two elephants being chained in their left front legs. Their small eyes showed me that they were sad I started to imagine I had the power of releasing all of them free back to their real home, but then I remembered most of their home, the forest, has been destroyed to open oil palm plantations, to support our thirst for home products.

Elephants, I know you can't read this post, but on behalf of these monsters, I would like to apologize for what we've done to you. Maybe I will enter Elephant heaven or maybe reincarnate as elephant, but whatever it'll be, I'll try my best to support your life.

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