Overview
- Guinness World Records reviewed evidence in early February and validated the 7.22-meter measurement for the snake nicknamed Ibu Baron.
- A team led by licensed handler Diaz Nugraha measured the python on January 18, with documentation by photographer Radu Frentiu.
- The snake weighed about 96.5 kilograms when recorded, with handlers noting she had not recently eaten.
- Conservationist Budi Purwanto now houses the python in a protected enclosure at a private sanctuary in Maros County.
- The record surpasses a 6.95-meter verified wild reticulated python documented in Borneo in 1999, as experts warn shrinking habitats and prey drive more human–snake encounters.