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Gulf Times Indonesian couple arrested for selling monkey meat Publish Date: Thursday,29 April, 2010, at 12:49 PM Doha Time Indonesian police said yesterday they had arrested a couple for selling the flesh of protected monkeys in meatball soup. The man and wife are accused of providing meat from Javan langur or silver-leaf monkeys found in Baluran National Park, East Java province, to sellers of "bakso", a spicy meatball soup. "They were arrested late in March and are now in police custody in Situbondo district," local deputy police chief Heru Prasetyo said. "After a tipoff from local people we arrested the wife with 35 kilograms of meat from about 25 langurs. We also seized one rifle and wood sticks to kill the monkeys," he said. The couple had confessed to selling the money meat for six years, he added
