Eating Snakes, Rats, and Dogs in Minahasa: Indonesian Bushmeat

In North Sulawesi’s Minahasa heartlands, the local cuisine gets pretty wild. Bushmeats like rats, snakes, bats, and monkey are a vital part of Minahasan cuisine.

But local tastes for dog meat are now coming under increased pressure from the Indonesian government, and environmentalists argue that all this bushmeat is pushing critically endangered animals even closer to extinction.

VICE’s Indonesia office heads deep into the forests of North Sulawesi to figure out how important food, and bushmeat, is to Minahasan culture.

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