Internalization of Animal Welfare Norms: Legal Protection Against Animal Mistreatment

Abstract

Animal welfare has important aspects in measuring the effect on animals in different situations and environments from an animal’s point of view. Ignoring animal welfare, both livestock and slaughter animals will lead to fear, stress and pain in animals during the process of slaughtering, transporting, marketing and supplying poor feed and water. The type of research is socio-juridical, carried out in North Sulawesi Province with the practice of slaughtering animals which was considered sadistic and received international criticism. The results show that the efforts to protect animals in order to realize animal welfare can be carried out by establishing laws and regulations. Specifically, regulate animal protection so that disharmony does not occur with the substance of the law, multiple interpretations. Animals, in this sense, are subjects for the spread of disease, rather than as objects for contracting the disease, especially from humans. In Indonesia, factors that cause weaknesses in animal protection are sanctions applied, the lack of knowledge and understanding of law enforcement officials.