Banjarbaru, S Kalimantan – The 300- kilogram (kg) crystal meth package, taken by the National Authorities’s drug team joint group during the Aug-6 drug raid, would not simply be sold South Kalimantan, a high-ranking law enforcement officer mentioned here, Wednesday.
The police investigation likewise blew the lid off the plan of drug dealerships to transport some of the crystal meth bundle to other cities outside South Kalimantan, consisting of those in Java, South Kalimantan Authorities Chief Inspector General Nico Afinta exposed.
On Wednesday, the South Kalimantan authorities damaged the taken drug plan. On the sidelines of this occasion, Afinta informed local journalists that the authorities’s success in hindering this drug trafficking operation had saved Indonesia as a whole.
The National Police has continuously extended complete assistance to the cops’s efforts in Kalimantan Island to ward off a global drug ring’s efforts to smuggle drug packages into Indonesia.
Kalimantan is susceptible to be utilized as an entrance by the Malaysian drug distribute, he explained.
The 300- kg crystal methamphetamine that the police taken from the two presumed drug dealers on Aug 6 were smuggled from Malaysia.
On Aug 6, the drug squad workers captured 2 other suspects, just recognized by their initials as A and R, at the Siena Inn Hotel in Banjarmasin, the capital of South Kalimantan Province, for presumably receiving the drug plan from AY and S.
The suspects were part of the exact same drug ring as the presumed drug dealerships of the 208- kg of crystal meth that the police seized in March.
” The crystal meth plans are smuggled from Malaysia into North Kalimantan to then be carried to and sold South Kalimantan,” Afinta remarked.
Domestic and global drug dealers view Indonesia as a prospective market on account of its big population and countless drug users. Drug trade in the nation is valued at almost Rp66 trillion.
Individuals from every strata of society are coming down with drugs no matter socio-economic and professional backgrounds. The drug crisis has actually also engulfed those from the country’s show business as appears from the arrests of several performers over consumption and likewise trade of illicit drugs.
In the face of the serious threat presented by drug lords, National Narcotics Firm (BNN) Chief Commissioner General Heru Winarko sought capital punishment for those involved in drug trade in the nation.
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