Shocking new footage of dogs and cats being bludgeoned over the head and blow-torched whilst still alive at an ‘extreme’ market in Indonesia’s North Sulawesi province, has prompted campaigners from the Dog Meat-Free Indonesia coalition to urge the Indonesian government to keep its promise to ban the islands’ brutal dog and cat meat trade.

Despite the national government’s Director of Veterinary Public Health, Mr. Syamsul Ma'arif, making a groundbreaking and progressive public pledge last month to end the trade which he called “torture for animals”, DMFI’s new footage shows that markets in Tomohon, North Sulawesi are continuing to slaughter thousands of dogs and cats every week and sell the meat for human consumption.