100 drug offenders awarded capital punishment in 2020

The key solution is punishing them (transgressors) severely

Jakarta – District courts in various parts of Indonesia have actually awarded the capital punishment to a minimum of 100 drug offenders in the first half of 2020, stated National Authorities Chief, General Idham Azis.

” May they quickly be performed by shooting squads to deter others,” he said while seeing the National Police’s special job force destroy 1.2 lots of crystal methamphetamine, 35 thousand ecstasy tablets, and 410 kilograms of marijuana at the Jakarta urban authorities head office on Thursday.

The drugs were taken from members of regional and international drug rings, including those operating from Iran, Pakistan, China, and Aceh and Jakarta in Indonesia, during raids conducted in Might and June this year.

A number of members of parliament, officials from the National Narcotics Company (BNN), and agents from the general public prosecution office also concerned witness the damage of the taken drugs.

Strict and extreme police is the treatment for breaking the chain of drug-related criminal activities in Indonesia, and it would also serve as a deterrent to others, requiring them to reevaluate getting associated with drug-trafficking activities and usage of illicit drugs, Azis remarked.

” The key remedy is penalizing them (wrongdoers) severely,” he stated, including that public prosecutors and judges ought to not be reluctant to award the severest penalty to drug dealers.

Domestic and multinational drug dealerships view Indonesia as a possible market due to its big population and countless drug users. The drug sell Indonesia is valued at almost Rp66 trillion.

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According to a report from BNN, about 50 drug use-related deaths happen daily in Indonesia. However, the deaths fail to prevent people from using drugs.

In the face of the serious risk positioned by drug lords, BNN chief commissioner General Heru Winarko has advised capital penalty for those associated with the drug sell the nation.

Both BNN and the cops have actually continued their war against drugs amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

On May 19, 2020, under the command of Brig. Gen. Ferdy Sambo and Sen. Coms. Herry Heryawan, the National Police’s Red and White Unique Job Force seized 821 kg of crystal meth in Serang District, Banten Province.

On June 4, 2020, a drug raid in Banten Province helped reveal another case involving the smuggling of 402.38 kg of crystal methamphetamine from the Middle Eastern region into Indonesia on board a worked with fishing boat. (INE)

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