One Down, One to Go: Indonesian Companies' Shameless Promotions of Cockfighting

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Please respond immediately.

Many

thanks to those who contacted Indo-Holidays.com, a tourism company purporting

to “disclose … the beauty of Indonesia” by displaying a brazen feature on cockfighting.

Citing your response, the company has removed this appalling celebration of

sadism and cowardice from their site.

Congratulations!

Sadly, another

tourism promotion of cockfighting has been uncovered. The Bali Hilton

International hotel offers guests a “theme party,”

where attendants can be “entertained by cockfighting” as they sip

cocktails on the beach before dinner. It is this romantic image of the

blood-soaked practice that truly “defies description,” not the

hotel’s “magic” as it claims.

Of course, the hotel

fails to mention cockfighters’ attachment of

razor sharp daggers to the birds’ feet, or the birds’

injuries—the most common are broken wings and legs, punctured lungs,

severed spinal cords, and gouged-out eyes—or their fates: the

“lucky” ones die, eventually. The survivors are fought again. And again.

For more information

about cockfighting,

Please—in a polite and courteous

manner—implore Bali Hilton International to do the

right thing for animals and Indonesia by removing this cruel

promotion from its Web site and literature and focusing instead on the

nation’s humane attractions:

Bali Hilton

International Hotel

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