Exalos Indonesia Launched a Snake Handling Book for Expatriate

Exalos Indonesia launched a book on how to handle snakes, specifically for Indonesian citizens or expatriates from Indonesia. Especially those living in countries with potential conflict with snakes. Such as Southeast Asia, Australia, India, and Africa. "Anyway, a country with a high level of potential (conflict with snakes)," said Founder of Exalos Indonesia, First Corporal (TNI) Janu Widodo.

Because, according to him, many lives of animal and environmental activists have just been lost due to a lack of vigilance and anticipation. "I don't want Indonesian environmental activists living abroad to suffer the same fate," said Janu.

So Janu W. Widodo, declared a 'war' against the ignorance and lack of awareness of society, especially those who handle venomous snakes. "Our war is in an educational way. Exalos Indonesia launched a book entitled "Penanganan Ular" for the community," said Janu W. Widodo. Until this day, the death toll from snake bites in Indonesia is almost equivalent to the death toll from cancer.

The book "Penanganan Ular" (Snake Handling) was released at the beginning of the week of June 2023, with the main focus on good and correct snake handling techniques. "The language used is Indonesian, but it can be easily translated into other international languages," he said.

That is why the book is distributed free of charge in PDF format. To download the book, simply visit the Exalos Indonesia website. For those who are new to Exalos Indonesia, just visit the Google search engine and type "Exalos Indonesia". After the website is found, select the book to download, entitled "Penanganan Ular".

In Indonesia itself, apart from ordinary people, the victims who died as a result of conflicts with snakes were also experienced by snake activists. According to Janu, it is a high level of irony. Because, they often try to show attractive actions that aim to entertain themselves and the audience. But in the end, it came disaster. "The snake activists and keepers were killed by their own pet, which have been their friends all this time," regretted Janu.

Even during the COVID-19 outbreak, there were two expert snake handling figures who died due to wrong actions. Janu doesn't want any more similar cases. So he wrote a book, with materials originating from a training in handling snakes that had been held by Exalos Indonesia.

After the training material was collected and organized by Janu, he chose a writer and editor named Angiola Harry from IAPWE (International Association of Professional Writers and Editors), to tidy it up. "After I edited Janu's writing, I saw many useful things. Beneficial for the environment in general, and also for human life in particular," said Angiola Harry who currently works for Marker Content in Arizona, United States.