Indonesia's forestry ministry said it was coordinating with India to repatriate five baby orangutans found in Balasore, Odisha. [1] Antara filed the infants at Nandankanan Zoological Park, about a year old, with traits suggesting Sumatran origin. [1] Working to repatriate is not already home. Print coordinating. Do not print a completed flight.

The Strait Times filed the same ministry seeking to bring them back, with trafficking suspected. [2] DNA confirmation was still planned. CITES paperwork was still ahead. Print five. Leave a landing in Sumatra to the edition that owns a landing.

Friday recap that treats a coordination note as five cubs already rehabilitated is a feed, not Antara. Print the ask. Print not a finished repatriation.

Friday is not a completed flight.
Wildlife repatriations move at the speed of paperwork: DNA tests, CITES permits, quarantine slots. Five cubs wait in the middle of that queue. Friday filed the ask; flights come later.

Queued cubs wait on paper; Friday's paper is filed. Filing precedes flying. Quarantine slots decide.

Five cubs wait on DNA, CITES, and paper. Trafficking is suspected, not proven. Sumatra landings belong later.

Friday filed the ask. Flights come later. Five cubs wait in the queue.

Five cubs about a year old remain at Nandankanan while Jakarta works the India channel. Sumatran origin is still a trait reading pending DNA. The Strait Times carried the same ministry request. Friday copy has no Sumatra landing.
Five cubs wait at Nandankanan, not on a flight. Flights come later. Five cubs wait in the queue.

Friday's Nandankanan file is a queue, not a flight. Five cubs wait in Odisha, not on a Sumatra flight. DNA still waits.

-- KENJI NAKAMURA, Tokyo