A tragic incident occurred in central Indonesia where a crocodile attacked and killed a woman working on a palm oil plantation.
The 44-year-old woman was working with a colleague in West Kalimantan province on the island of Borneo when the crocodile chased them, biting her left hand and dragging her into a ditch.
Despite her colleague’s efforts to save her, the crocodile overpowered them, and the colleague ran to alert the police in the coastal district of Ketapang.
Local police chief Bagus Tri Baskoro reported that after a 90-minute search, the victim’s body was found still in the crocodile’s grip, not far from the attack site. The crocodile released her body when rescuers approached.
Indonesia, home to several species of crocodiles, frequently experiences such attacks. Borneo, split between Brunei, Malaysia, and Indonesia, hosts vast tracts of jungle with rare animals. However, palm oil plantations and logging projects have been criticized for encroaching on these rainforest areas.
In a similar incident in August, a crocodile killed a 54-year-old woman bathing in a river on Indonesia’s Maluku islands. In 2018, a mob in Papua, Indonesia’s easternmost region, killed nearly 300 crocodiles in retaliation after a local man was killed by one of the reptiles.
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