00:00In a suburban house in the hills of the city of Bandung, some unusual backyard pets.
00:12Oh, hello. Welcome to my home.
00:15Thank you for having us.
00:16Yeah, you're welcome.
00:17This is the home of Alshad Ahmad, a 29-year-old YouTuber who is Indonesia's Tiger King.
00:23This is my meerkat.
00:25Alshad's been building his home zoo for five years.
00:28Technically, it's a captive breeding program.
00:31There are four tigers here at the moment, and possibly more to come.
00:37How much can they mate in a day?
00:4030 up to 50 times a day.
00:43For how many days?
00:44Four or five days.
00:46So four or five days in a row?
00:48Yeah.
00:49And they can mate 30 to 50 times per day?
00:51Yeah.
00:52Wow. That's stamina.
00:55But tiger cubs are a bit of a sore point here.
00:58Alshad's gained millions of followers online for videos of cubs roaming around the family's luxurious home.
01:05But when he revealed that six out of seven born here died, the backlash was swift.
01:11What were they saying?
01:13I cannot take care of tigers. I murder the tigers. Yeah, something like that.
01:19He says the mother had problems feeding the cubs,
01:22and only when he intervened to bottle-wean them with imported tiger milk did one cub finally survive.
01:31Animals are very hard to take care of because they are very fragile.
01:38They look strong, but actually they are fragile.
01:42Animal rights activists here say authorities in Indonesia
01:46are too willing to grant permits to keep tigers in the name of conservation.
01:52When up to six cubs are dying one after the other, we have to ask what's wrong.
01:57We need to review this practice of keeping tigers,
02:00and ask if the births are followed by deaths, how is it conservation?
02:05But Alshad Ahmad says the conditions he operates in are strict,
02:09and he has big plans for the future.
02:12Eventually, at the end, we want to build a zoo.
02:16With a range of other animals taking up his family's front and backyards, he's already on the way.
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