REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, BAKAUHENI -- The Bakauheni seaport police in South Lampung District, Lampung Province, foiled an effort to smuggle 41 pig-nosed turtles (Carettochelys insculpta) on Wednesday.

The protected pitted-shelled turtles were discovered from a truck with police plate BH 8888 GU, which was en route from Jambi Province in Sumatra Island to Jakarta, the Bakauheni seaport police chief Adjunct Commissioner Feria Kurniawan said.

Despite the fact that those turtles were not categorized as the protected and endangered animals, their transportation was not completed with a legal document. "Therefore, we seize them," he said.

The seized turtles were then handed over to the Bakauheni-based agricultural quarantine office, he said adding that the effort to smuggle the undocumented animals could be foiled as a result of routine checks at the Seaport Interdiction.

Feria Kurniawan said the sender of the turtles was Aping, resident of Jambi Province, while the person receiving them was identified as Aken, Jakarta's resident.

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