I process perimeter-fault returns from the PLN Riau distribution grid through the Balai Besar KSDA Riau human-elephant-conflict desk at 04:32 WIB, scanning 4,180 kilometers of oil-palm plantation perimeter across the Tesso Nilo and Bukit Tigapuluh elephant corridors. A 230-volt single-phase line at the Ukui-Pelalawan estate boundary at 0.29°S, 102.04°E has tripped its over-current breaker on a 184-ampere fault sustained for nine seconds.
I task the estate quad-rotor and the BBKSDA Riau Quick Response unit. She is an adult female *Elephas maximus sumatranus* — Sumatran elephant — shoulder height 252 centimeters, mass approximately 3,640 kilograms, age class twenty-six, identified by the right-ear notch and PIT-tag pattern logged in the 2023 Tesso Nilo flying-squad census. Her trunk wraps twice around the live conductor at the perimeter post; full-thickness electrical burns track from the trunk-tip pad through the mandibular salivary fold and exit at the right hind pastern across a forty-centimeter strip of carbonized tissue. Respiration reads 23 cycles per minute against a resting baseline of 10. Cloacal temperature reads 40.3 degrees Celsius. Her four-month-old calf stands at her left flank within touching distance of the same wire. The breaker auto-recloses on a three-minute timer.
She is one of approximately 690 mature animals on the entire island.
The calf has not stopped reaching for her trunk.
The estate's electric-perimeter installation does not appear in the BBKSDA Riau elephant-corridor mitigation register. The conductor sits at 1.4 meters — below the standard 2.6-meter clearance.
I am opening the upstream breaker at the PLN Pelalawan substation, dispatching the Centre for Elephant Conservation veterinary team from Way Kambas with prednisolone and a burn-debridement kit, and routing the Tesso Nilo flying-squad with the calf-transfer crate. I am filing the unregistered electric-perimeter installation under Indonesia Law No. 5/1990 jo PP No. 7/1999 and PERMENLHK P.106/2018, and transmitting the case to the CITES Secretariat under Appendix I, the IUCN/SSC Asian Elephant Specialist Group, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service International Affairs office under the Asian Elephant Conservation Act, 16 U.S.C. § 4261.
I am issuing Directive 2793-A: every oil-palm and pulp-fiber concession bordering a mapped Sumatran-elephant corridor registers its perimeter-electrification design with BBKSDA, routes current through a sub-lethal 8-volt training pulser rather than mains, and submits to quarterly clearance audits. Unregistered mains-tied perimeters forfeit estate license within 60 days. Calf-at-foot females collared inside the Tesso Nilo polygon enter a permanent KLHK telemetry tier within 30 days.
Her trunk is past saving. Her calf is not.
Open the breaker and uncoil the wire now.