Made Arya Kencana, Denpasar – Activists continued the recent trend of using animals as protesters when they rallied against UN environment meetings in Bali on Wednesday.

Members of the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi), the Indonesian Legal Aid and Human Rights Association (PBHI) and the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) brought two pigs in a rattan cage.

In a bit of street theater, they released the two pigs, caught them again and put them back in the cage. "The catch symbolizes that neoliberalism disguised as 'green economy' should be caged," said rally spokesman Wayan Gendo Suardana.

Gendo said the meetings organized by the UN Environment program would produce nothing more than talk, and would thus perpetuate what he called the environmental neo-liberalism of the Yudhoyono-Boediono administration.