Jakarta – The Transport Ministry praised the Hang Nadim International Airport security workers in Batam City, Riau Islands Province, for jailing a ministry’s civil servant over attempting to smuggle a three-kilogram crystal methamphetamine plan on Aug 22.
The ministry has expressed disappointment over the discovery of attempted smuggling by the civil servant of the Transportation Ministry’s Air Transport Directorate General and lauded the airport’s aviation security personnel, the ministry’s spokesperson, Adita Irawati, noted.
” We are highly disappointed and deeply concerned over what has transpired. We enable law enforcers to manage this drug case,” Irawati notified regional journalists in Jakarta on Monday.
During arrest by the Hang Nadim Airport security workers, the civil servant was worn the ministry’s official uniform. However, he did not actually make a service journey.
” We verify here that he is not on a business journey,” she specified.
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Irawati even more believes that the suspect’s arrest would assist to break the chain of drug smuggling operation and would likewise be an eye-opener and a great lesson for others.
ANTARA kept in mind that the suspect collared by the Hang Nadim International Airport security workers on Aug 22 was recognized as Reno Dwi Putra, a civil servant working for the Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali Province.
Putra was arrested together with his female buddy for supposedly carrying 3 kgs of crystal methamphetamine from Pekanbaru, the capital of Riau Province, to Surabaya, the capital of East Java Province.
Putra informed authorities investigators that he had successfully carried the crystal meth bundles thrice at numerous airports since he was wearing the Transportation Ministry’s official uniform and ID card.
Domestic and multinational drug dealers have actually stayed consistent and grave threats to Indonesia since they perceive the nation as a potential market based upon its huge population and countless drug users. Drug sell the country is valued at nearly Rp66 trillion.
People from all sections of society are falling prey to drugs despite their socio-economic and expert backgrounds.
Those from the nation’s show business have also been siphoned into this drug crisis, as appears from the arrests of numerous entertainers over consumption and also trade of illegal drugs.
In the wake of the serious risk posed by drug lords, National Narcotics Firm (BNN) Chief Commissioner General Heru Winarko sought capital penalty for those associated with drug trade in the country.
National Cops Chief General Idham Azis just recently highlighted that district courts in various parts of Indonesia had granted capital penalty to a minimum of 100 drug wrongdoers in the very first half of 2020.
” May they soon be carried out by shooting squads to discourage others,” he worried while attesting to the National Police special task force’s transfer to damage 1.2 lots of crystal methamphetamine, 35 thousand ecstasy tablets, and 410 kgs of marijuana in Jakarta on July 2, 2020.
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