Posted: April 8th, 2010 - 11:34pm by Doug Powell

The Jakarta Post reports that a 57-year-old man died and 139 residents of South Pagai Island, in Mentawai, West Sumatra, have been treated for food poisoning after consuming the meat of a leatherback turtle.

Tiolina Saogo, chief of South Pagai public health center, told The Jakarta Post 30 residents had been put under intensive care.

There are frequent deaths from turtle-meat poisoning on the islands off the West Sumatran coast.