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- Indonesia's Forestry Ministry is seeking to repatriate five baby orangutans rescued in India.
- Rangers discovered the one-and-a-half-year-old infants on Sept 8 in Balasore district, Odisha, during a forest patrol.
- Preliminary checks suggest Sumatran origin, a critically endangered species with about 13,500 individuals in 2016, pending DNA confirmation.
- Indonesia has requested India return the apes through the Indian embassy in Jakarta.
- NGO founder Panut Hadisiswoyo said repatriation should be the priority.
