Victory at Last as Orangutan regains freedom after two years of being locked up

Kotap in his wooden cage

Report reaching us from Indonesia confirms that The International Animal Rescue has finally freed a 4-year-old orangutan after spending two years alone in a tiny, dark wooden cage.
Kotap, the orangutan, was kept in a 10 sq ft box in Indonesia’s West Kalimantan province by his owner, Baco.

According to the International Animal Rescue, all he knew of the outside world were sounds of people passing by his wooden crate and occasional visits from his owner.

In a video of his rescue, he could be seen hesitatant as officials from the forestry department (BKSDA) of West Kalimantan try to coax him out.

Baco claimed Kotab was two years old when he was gifted from some men he had met in the village of Ketapang.

It means that it had spent half his life shut up in the tiny cage.

Kotap would be taken to join other rescued orangutans at the Rescue's centre and will be given a chance of returning to the forest where he belongs.