Indonesia drugs crackdown nets 285 including Australian
Indonesian officials, 29 women and seven strangers, including drug smuggling of 285 people suspected of arrest and two -month pressure during the pressure of more than half tons of various narcotics, he said.
Indonesia is a major center for drug trafficking in Southeast Asia, although it has strict drug laws, and prosperous smugglers sometimes execute by shooting.
Marthinus Hukom, the President of the National Narcotics Agency, said that the pressure initiated in 20 states between April and June revealed the plans of money laundering by two drug unions and seized 26 billion rupees (about $ 2.3 million).
Thirty -six suspects, including 21 women, in front of reporters, together with the seized drugs, orange prison uniforms and handcuffed his hands.
Hukom said that the arrested women were mostly a housewife.
“I urge Indonesian women to be more awake in establishing friendships both in the real world and in the field of cyber.” He said.
Budi Wibowo, one of the deputies of the agency, said that the authorities seized 683,885 grams of crystal Meth, Marihuana, Ecstasy, THC, Cannabis and amphetamine, and helping to fall into the hands of more than 1.3 million people.
Wibowo also said that drug unions use various methods to distribute narcotics through land and sea transportation or postal services to users.
Wibowo, seven foreign US citizens, two Kazakhs, two Malaysian, one Indian and Australian, he said.
The United Nations Drug and Crime Office says Indonesia is partly partially using drugs because international drug unions aim for the young population.
Hukom said in a separate operation on Monday, the authorities on the Island of Irau revealed two drug smuggling cases in waters in May and seized 2.7 tons of crystal methamphetamine and 1.2 tons of ketamine.
In 2023, the authorities revealed more than 52,000 drugs and said that during the Press Conference, the Ministry of Security Mohammad Hasan, Mohammad Hasan, confiscated 6.2 tons of crystal met, 1.1 tons marijuana and other synthetic narcotics.
Hasan said that it increased in 2024 with more than 56,000 cases and seized 7.5 tons of crystal Meth and 3.3 tons of marijuana with a merger value of 7.5 trillion rupees.
Authorities said that the authorities arrested a total of 27,357 drug suspects by November 2024.
At the beginning of this month, three British citizens accused of smuggling about one kilogram of cocaine in Indonesia were accused in a court on the tourist Bali island.
They face the death penalty under the country’s strict drug laws.
Approximately 530 people, including 96 foreigners, during death in Indonesia, mostly for drug -related crimes.
The last executions of Indonesia and three foreigners in July 2016 were held in July 2016.
