Satrio Wiratama was born in November last year in Taman Safari Indonesia, a zoo in Cisarua, West Java, to a pair of pandas loaned by China to Indonesia.
"There are so many Indonesians who had to go all the way to China just to see baby pandas. Now they don't have to anymore," zoo director Aswin Sumampau told reporters Friday.
Inside the enclosure built to welcome his parents, the 170-day-old cub, whose name means "brave and noble warrior," was playing with a panda stuffed toy and a bamboo teether.
Satrio Wiratama meaning "noble and brave knight" and known as Rio, is a 170 days old male giant panda cub, the first panda cub born in Indonesia from a couple brought from China in 2017, at the Panda Palace of Taman Safari Indonesia in Bogor, West Java on May 15, 2026. Photo by AFP
His mother, Hu Chun, and his father, Cai Tao, arrived in Indonesia in 2017 when they were both seven years old as part of "panda diplomacy" aimed at celebrating 60 years of bilateral ties between the two countries.
