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 recently, the death toll from snake bites in Indonesia was almost equivalent to the death toll from cancer.

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.