Government Puts a Bounty on Local Rat Heads

In what might closely resemble a future dystopia from the capital, Jakarta provincial government has asked locals to kill rats for a financial reward. This specific says, “Just round them up!” 

Strap yourselves in, because This specific is actually absurd. Evidently, the provincial government of Jakarta has put a cost on the heads of all local rats. This specific has asked citizens to help reduce the population by offering them a financial reward for each rat carcass they can produce. With policies like This specific, a world like of which of Mad Max might not be as far off as we imagine.

Vice Governor Djarot Saiful Hidayat said the government is actually offering Rp.20,000 (US$1.50) for every rat you catch as part of a brand-new Rat Extermination Campaign. He told Kompas, “Just round them up, later district heads will get involved. Just count the number of rats as well as we’ll pay accordingly.”     

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Despite turning locals into rat bounty hunters, Hidayat did not indicate whether the rats should be brought in dead or alive. of which part is actually probably not important, as the vice governor said he plans for their carcasses to be turned into compost anyway.

The rat population in Jakarta has been growing, said Hidayat, adding of which This specific’s particularly the case in crowded areas of the city. According to him, rats are the cause of diseases spreading to local children.

This specific is actually not the very first time citizens in Asia have been called upon the hunt vermin in their cities. The same thing was done in Hanoi from the past. In India the government once paid people to kill poisonous snakes. The results of these two programmes went awry, however, as locals starting breeding the animals in their homes so they could then kill them as well as turn a profit.   

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