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🇮🇩 Indonesia

1 in 19 of the world’s cats lives here

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Numbers

pets

22 million 📎 www.jawapos.com 2026 press ~22M (Kementan event, not clearly official) · BPS 6.84M farm-unit undercount (2023) · Royal Canin 24.9M (2024)

street

10 million 🎲 no national count; Jakarta alone 305,000–1.5M (AFP 2026, estimates) · 10M is a game value

Share of the world’s cats

5.3% 🎲

Lifespan in the data

10.6 yrs 🎲

Neutered (pets / street)

30% / 3.0% 🎲 no national neuter rate · Jakarta sterilised ~21,000 cats in 2025 vs 305k–1.5M strays (AFP 2026, real) · shares sim

Kept indoors

30% 🎲

And what kind of cat 🎲

• a cat from an ordinary home34%
• a street cat20%
• a cat from a poor household14%
• a cat from a wealthy home12%
• a kitten from an unwanted litter6.9%
• a show-cattery cat5.5%
• a temple, shrine or mosque cat3.7%
• a backyard-bred kitten2.7%
• a lab cat<0.1%

Beliefs about cats

• Black cats: no strong belief
• Mosque cats: fed and looked after

Help real cats in Indonesia

• Jakarta free sterilisation — City service: free cat sterilisation in Jakarta dkpkp.jakarta.go.id
• BAWA (Bali) — Sterilisation, vaccination, adoption in Bali bawabali.com
• Animal Friends Jogja — Rescue, adoption, education in Yogyakarta www.animalfriendsjogja.org
• Dog Meat Free Indonesia — Coalition to end the dog and cat meat trade www.dogmeatfreeindonesia.org

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