Palembang, S Sumatra – Drug carrier Muchtar Daud received a sentencing for 16 years in jail from the Palembang District Court on Tuesday for transporting one kilogram of crystal methamphetamine in April this year.
The court’s judiciary panel, headed by Erma Suharti, also slapped a fine of Rp1 billion on Daud in their verdict that was lighter than the 17- year jail time demanded by the district attorneys.
Daud, jailed by South Sumatra’s police officers in Sungai Lilin Sub-district, Musi Banyuasin District, last April was provided a week’s time to speak with his team of attorneys to choose whether to submit an appeal against the verdict.
Daud admitted to being employed by Joe, a fugitive, to transfer one kilogram of crystal meth from Tanjung Jaya Hamlet in Meunasah Bujok Village, Baktiya Sub-district, North Aceh District, Aceh Province, to Bandarlampung in Lampung Province.
Joe promised to pay Daud Rp55 million for transporting the drug plan, but he had just received Rp5 million for transportation expenses.
Domestic and transnational drug dealerships perceive Indonesia as a potential market owing to its vast population and millions of drug users. Drug sell the nation is valued at nearly Rp66 trillion.
Individuals from all areas of society are falling prey to drugs, regardless of socio-economic and expert backgrounds.
In the face of the grave threat positioned by drug lords, National Narcotics Firm (BNN) Chief Commissioner General Heru Winarko looked for capital penalty for those associated with drug trade in the nation.
National Police Chief General Idham Azis just recently highlighted that district courts in various parts of Indonesia had actually awarded capital punishment to a minimum of 100 drug wrongdoers in the very first half of 2020.
” May they quickly be carried out by shooting teams to discourage others,” he stressed while attesting to the National Cops special job force’s transfer to destroy 1.2 lots of crystal meth, 35,000 ecstasy pills, and 410 kg of marijuana in Jakarta on July 2, 2020.
The Indonesian Legal and Human Rights Ministry has actually also hinted its support for transferring founded guilty drug dealers and manufacturers to the maximum-security jail in Cilacap District’s Nusakambangan Island since it has adequate number of vacant jail cells.
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