JAAN — Jakarta Animal Aid Network

Jakarta Animal Aid Network (JAAN) was set up in February 2008, co-founded by Femke den Haas, as a place where people could report animal abuse in Indonesia. It has since grown into a team of more than 80, mostly Indonesian, professionals who rescue, rehabilitate and release Indonesian wildlife and help the authorities fight wildlife crime. It works with the National Police, the Ministry of Forestry and Environment, the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries and the national quarantine authorities, and says it is funded by individual donations, with no government money. (JAAN's former dog, cat and horse work became a separate organisation, JAAN Domestic, in 2020.)

Its programmes include the Sumatra Wildlife Center, opened in 2018 on a 10,000 m² site, which rehabilitates confiscated animals such as gibbons, macaques and sun bears through quarantine, species-specific rehabilitation and release; it reports more than 100 animals in rehabilitation and over 5,000 released. JAAN also runs Umah Lumba, a dolphin and turtle rehabilitation centre in West Bali; Ellis Park, a permanent home in Sumatra for wildlife with special needs; a K9 detection-dog unit that helps intercept smugglers; and a K9 anti-poaching unit protecting the Javan rhino. Its long campaign against “dancing monkeys” helped bring bans in Jakarta (2013), West Java (2016) and nationally (2019), and it has rescued and released hundreds of former performing macaques.

JAAN works closely with IFAW: in March 2026 the two assessed 114 endemic animals seized from traffickers at the BKSDA conservation office in Ternate (IFAW, 30 March 2026). In September 2026 it reported releasing Brad, a crocodile who had spent years in a tiny steel cage before recovering at Ellis Park.

You can report wildlife cruelty, volunteer, sponsor a macaque or donate through its website. JAAN Indonesia is a legally registered NGO under the Ministry of Law and Human Rights (NPWP 90-490-457-0-078-000), and Stichting JAAN Nederland (ANBI status) fundraises for it in the Netherlands.