Abstract
The Rainbow Lorikeet (Trichoglossus haematodus) has known one of the forest commodities non-wood’s, which found relative abundantly on trade. To know the appearance and perception of the bird traders towards their conservation efforts of the Rainbow Lorikeets, a survey was done on July 2004 in the Pramuka and Jatinegara bird markets (Jakarta). Questioner’s method was used in this survey with 30 numbers of systematical questions asked for 61 respondents in those bird markets. The profiles of the traders are shown that 80.3 percent trade birds only; 55.7 percent of them were average 31–40 years old; 49.2 percent be educated junior schools; 54.1 percent have traded for less 10 years and 62.3 percent of the traders income less than 500.000 rupiahs per month. By Q-square Test were results that 88.5 percent of the traders have agreed with the wildlife animal protected of a law, and 62.3 percent and 67.2 percent were not the same opinion to the goverment programes, namely: captivity and quota systems, respectively.