 Middlemen buy as many as 30 slow lorises from rural hunters over a wide area , and then sell them in the major city markets for 300 @,@ 000 to 500 @,@ 000 rupiahs ( US $ 32 to US $ 54 ) each . Western tourists and expatriates pay as much as 1 @,@ 000 @,@ 000 rupiahs ( US $ 108 ) . Traders have reported to researchers that they have difficulty keeping pace with demand , and one trader claimed to have sold nearly 1 @,@ 200 pygmy slow lorises during 2001 – 2002 . Hundreds of slow lorises are sold domestically each year in Indonesian at open @-@ air animal markets ( or " bird markets " ) , as well as in shopping malls . Slow lorises are the most commonly sold protected primate at these markets . Live trade is the most common , with only 13 @.@ 6 % of slow lorises traded for parts . In Phnom Penh , Cambodia during the 1990s , observers counted up to 204 slow lorises for sale at a single store ; in 2007 a market in Mondulkiri Province displayed 30 dried specimens . A total of 234 slow lorises were confiscated by the Forestry Administration @-@ Wildlife Alliance between 2002 and 2006 . In Indonesia , nearly 6 @,@ 000 to 7 @,@ 000 slow lorises were traded domestically each year from 2000 to 2006 . For international trade , Laos , Cambodia , and Thailand were the biggest exporters , with exports having declined for all species except the pygmy slow loris from 1998 to 2007 ( compared to 1978 – 1997 ) . 
