What do you think about a country without an organization for animal protection?

I live in Indonesia,a country where there’s no such organization specialized in animal protection and Police and Law Department won’t lay their hand on animals. Our government never think about making a rule for animal wealthiness purposes,most are about religion and less-important business.

I saw many many kind of animal abuse,most came from poor citizens,but some well to-do people are also known to harm their pets. One of the example would be my neighbor(she’s not poor nor rich),she will let her dogs to bark all day without food and water,she rarely bathe her dog,let them to eat her family’s left over food(trash),hit her dog with newspaper when they don’t want to shut up,and so on. To tell you the truth she’s not the only person I met with such manner,there are many people did such thing in this country. You’ll find more pet shop and less veterinarian here since pets are quite affordable and not many people care about animal vaccination. Don’t blame me for being ignorant. Not many people just care about the life of non-human creature here.

So what I want to know here is what you think about the situation where animals have no right in human community? Do you agree that not every pets in this world could be saved from abuse? And finally,should poor people(no offense) be allowed to own pet?