Indonesia: Scientists Discover Man with 100% Orangutan DNA
Boston, USA | A team of biologists from the University of Massachussets have discovered a human being with the identical genome type of an orangutan, a discovery which could dramatically challenge previous views on human evolution, believe experts.
The two-year study, under a UN grant for the genetic code-mapping of the people of the South East Asian region, revealed an unprecedented discovery when Sumatra native Sudomo Butang Kartawijaya was found to have the identical genome type of an orangutan. Although scientists first sequenced the genome of a female Sumatran orangutan named Suzie in 2011, which proved Orangutans are more closely related to humans than chimps, the discovery was completely unexpected. 
The unexpected discovery could lead to a new understanding of human evolution and our common ancestry with the Great apes, believes head researcher, Adams Brown
Although the red-haired apes are less closely related to us than chimps – who have 99 per cent of DNA in common – a small portion of orangutan DNA is a closer match to human DNA, explains leading researcher Adam Browns.
“The 2011 study shows they recorded around 13 million DNA variations in the apes and found the two species split around 400,000 years ago – much more recently than previously thought, although this new discovery could completely change previous ideas about human evolution”
he told local reporters.
“Although human DNA variations vary in the millions, this is the first time the genome sequence of a human being and a Great ape are so strikingly similar, leading us to reevaluate modern theories concerning man’s common ancestors with our cousins, the Great apes”
he added, visibly enthused by the discovery. 
If the discovery has been praised by the scientific community as groundbreaking, the news has cast doubts and shame on the man and his family whom are visibly confused by the verdict
“My father once told me my mother was an orangutan, but I never believed him. Now that scientists tell me I am an orangutan, I don’t know what to believe”
Mr Kartawijaya told reporters, visibly emotional.
“Why would my father lie about such an awful thing?”
he asked aloud, in great pain and agony.
“I wish I had never learned these things. All I want is to have my old life back again. I was a farmer, but now villagers say I am a monkey. This has put great shame on my family”
claims the man that has refused all further genetic testing on his family members. Orangutans have long been used for prostitution by workers of logging companies and palm oil plantations, but scientists disavow completely the possibility of Sudomo being born from the sexual relationship between a human being and a orangutan.
“We’re not saying he is an orangutan, although his gene sequence is strikingly similar, close to 99.99%. Well, technically, if we are talking from a genome specific point of view, yes, he is an orangutan, but he visibly has human characteristics which are non existent in the orangutan species as of today”
admits professor Jane Spears, part of the team of researchers. In December 2014, Argentina became the first country to recognize a non-human primate as having legal rights when it ruled that an orangutan named Sandra at the Buenos Aires Zoo must be moved to a sanctuary in Brazil in order to provide her “partial or controlled freedom”.