A dead whale that washed ashore in a national park in Indonesia had 115 plastic cups in its stomach, park officials said on Tuesday.
The 31ft sperm whale was found in waters near Kapota Island, part of the Wakatobi National Park, south east of Sulawesi
The park is famous among divers for its large area of reefs and diverse marine life including rays and whales.
The cause of death was not known, but park officials found plastic bottles, bags, flip-flops, and a sack with more than 1,000 pieces of string in the whale's stomach.
Dwi Suprapti, a marine species conservation coordinator at WWF Indonesia, said: "Although we have not been able to deduce the cause of death, the facts that we see are truly awful."
In June, the death of a pilot whale in Thailand with 80 pieces of plastic rubbish in its stomach garnered headlines locally, but drew more attention outside the country.
Five Asian nations - China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand - account for up to 60 percent of plastic waste leaking into oceans, said a 2015 report by the environmental campaigner Ocean Conservancy and the McKinsey Center for Business and Environment.
Indonesia, ranked second behind China in the 2015 study of mismanaged plastic waste from populations living near coastal areas in 192 countries, has pledged $1 billion a year to reduce marine plastic debris by 70 percent by 2025.
Wakatobi park planned to bury the whale carcass at high tide on Tuesday, and the remains would be used for study purposes by the local marine academy.