Multa Fidrus, The Jakarta Post. Tangerang
The Jakarta City Police destroyed Rp 1.2 trillion worth of drugs, including the banned herbal drinks, unlicensed food and percusor confiscated during raids between February 27 and June 13 this year.
The Jakarta City Police destroyed Rp 1.2 trillion worth of drugs, including the banned herbal drinks, unlicensed food and percusor confiscated during raids between February 27 and June 13 this year.
The incineration of 33,200 grams of marijuana, 592,946.39 grams of shabu-shabu (crystal methamphetamine), 1.001,170 ecstasy pills, 500,000 registered-as-G pills, 60,000 packs of banned herbal drinks, 100 pack of unlicensed food, 250,000 Tie pills and 280,000 pecusor of took place near the Center for Science and Technology Research (Puspitek) in Serpong, Tangerang on Tuesday.
The Jakarta City deputy police chief Brig. Gen. Jasir Karwita said the drugs were seized as evidence from 13 cases invloving 16 suspects comprising 11 foreigners and five Indonesians.
He said nine of the cases were still in the develoment process and the rest have already been brought to court.
“The entire destroyed evidence worth Rp 1.2 trillion and they were seized in several operations held within the jurisdictions of the City Police since February,” he said.
According to Karwita, the destruction of the evidence could save the life of at least 3,731,742 people.
The most prominent case was the raid on an ecstasy syndicate on Feb. 27. The police seized 600, 000 pills from a Mutiara Taman Palem home stores in Cengkareng, West Jakarta.
Officers also arrested a Dutch Citizen idetified as Siegfred Mets, a Taiwanese identified as Chen Hua Yi, a Singaporean identified as Ong Tiong Poh, a Indonesian man called Alexander during the raid.
Another case was the confiscation of 597,700 grams of shabu-shabu in a raid held on Jl. Camar Permai Raya No. 3, Kapuk Muara, Penjaringan, West Jakarta on March 19. Officers also arrested two Chinese citizens identified as Huang Ruliang alias Aling and Zhang Chunwei.
On the same day, officers confiscated 280,000 Nor Ephedrine percusor in a warehouse at Tanjung Priok Port in North Jakarta, which would be smuggled overseas through a vessel.
Meanwhile, Sudirman, an executive of the Jakarta Narchotics Body said that the capital had become the center of drug production as well as the distribution so that the society was expected to contribute information to the police in attempt to fight drug abuses.
Besides that, he also encouraged the public to help fight drug trafficking.
“This country is not only a market for drugs, but also a producer and therefore community members must be involved and given active role giving information on drug activities to the police,” he said.
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