Thai Department of National Parks workers handle a cage holding orangutans as they prepare for the animals' repatriation to Indonesia at a Military airport in Bangkok on November 12, 2015. -AFP
JAKARTA: A group of smuggled orangutans arrived in Indonesia from Thailand on Thursday, following years of diplomatic wrangling over who will care for them after the majority were discovered abandoned on a roadside.
Previous Thai governments sought compensation from Indonesia for the cost of housing and treating the 14 apes but the junta government in Bangkok recently waived those demands and pushed ahead with the repatriation.
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