The Animal Lovers Community honored Elephant Yongki for his service in helping to secure Sumatra's forests. The award was given at the Global Parade for Elephants, Rhinos and Tigers, which was held for the first time in Indonesia, centered in Banda Aceh on October 3, 2015.

Yongki was honored with two paintings by two Indonesian teenage girls. The painting titled "Thank You Yongki" was made by Emira Bunga Ramadhan, a high school student in Jakarta and the painting titled "Indonesia Proud of Yongki" by Ayu Putri Meidina, a student in Banda Aceh. Yongki was a 35-year-old tame elephant who was in charge of forest safety patrols in Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park (TNBBS) in Lampung. He was found killed and his tusks stolen by poachers on September 18.

The painting for Yongki was handed over to WWF Indonesia Species Specialist Sunarto and Project Leader of WWF Indonesia Ujung Kulon Program. The painting will then be sent to Pemerihan Camp in TNBBS, where Yongki lived.

Coordinator of Global Marching for Elephant, Rhino and Tiger (GMFERT) Indonesia, Cut Evrida Diana, this painting is a memento that there was once an elephant named Yongki who had great services for the protection of Sumatra's forests. Yongki has become a victim of the ivory trafficking syndicate who mercilessly snuffed out the lives of the world's rare animals.

According to Cut Evrida, the killing of Yongki adds to the long list of animals killed by poaching and trade. "In this action we call on Indonesia and the international community to end the worldwide trade in elephant ivory, rhino horn, bones, tiger skin and teeth."

Sunarto told the media that poaching of animals such as elephants, tigers and rhinos is very serious. Indonesia is currently a target area for animal poaching.

According to Cut Evrida Diana, animal crime is now a serious crime in the world, almost equal to drug crime and human trafficking. It has become an illicit business that involves many parties ranging from poachers, traders, smugglers between countries and consumers in the international black market. Cut Evrida said, almost every day we see and hear news about animal cruelty. But that is only a fraction of what we see. Because in reality every second hundreds of animals are killed around the world or they die slowly due to exploitation or destruction of their habitat.

"It is time for the world community to unite against animal crimes. No one should keep animals for pleasure because their good home is only in the forest. Do not be proud if we have ivory, horn or tiger skin at home because we have actually taken the lives of creatures created by Allah SWT."

GMFERT action is a simultaneous action of global citizens to call for the protection of elephants, rhinos and tigers held on October 3-4, 2015 in 120 places around the world. For the first time Indonesia participated to give support and commitment to protect and preserve these endangered animals. "We started Indonesia's commitment from Aceh, which is one of two provinces in Indonesia besides Lampung that has Sumatran elephants, rhinos and tigers," said Cut Evrida.

The parade in support of saving elephants, rhinos and tigers was coordinated by the Earth Hour Aceh Movement. There were 200 people participating representing Bapedal Aceh, Aceh Police, Aceh BKSDA, Aceh Tourism Ambassadors, Agam and Inong Aceh Besar, Lab School Unsyiah high school students, Children from Al Imtiyaz Home Schooling, youth communities, Walhi, Aceh Geothermal Forum and WWF Indonesia who fully support this campaign action.

They will parade on the city's protocol roads starting from Taman Sari - Baiturrahman Grand Mosque - Tugu Simpang carrying attributes such as posters reading "Let's Take Care of Rhinos, Gaah and Tigers", "Don't Hurt Animals, They Are Also Creatures of God". Participants wore elephant, rhinoceros and tiger masks and performed theatrical actions, speeches, reading poems for Yongki, and singing along to the song "Gajah" by Tulus in memory of Yongki.