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

<http://www.indo-holidays.com/indo23/cockfighting.htm> . Congratulations!

Sadly, another tourism promotion of cockfighting has been uncovered. The

Bali Hilton International hotel offers guests a " theme party

<http://www.balihilton.com/mice/kampungnelayan.html> , " 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, click here

<http://www.hsus.org/ace/18710> .

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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