The Customs and Excise Office on Thursday destroyed 103,057 bottles of alcoholic drinks imported illegally at the Jakarta International Container Terminal (JICT) I in the Tanjung Priok Port, Jakarta. The drinks were imported illegally by falsifying import data and using names of other companies, the office said in a statement.
Your comments:
What a waste. This is an example of how Indonesians have no idea of the value of quality goods. The resale of the wine and liquor they destroy could feed a huge number of poor families for a whole year.
The worst thing is they don't consider the time, money and energy wasted in its design, production, bottling and transportation or the environmental costs, to then just be destroyed. I wonder if they even recycle all the broken glass.
Andy Short
Jakarta
Smuggling happens when you have punitive tariffs and allow only one company a monopoly to import alcoholic beverages. They crushed 103,057 bottles (mostly wine from the picture) that they found, but how many others got in where the government received no excise duty?
K. Highlander
Jakarta
Sorry, but would it not make more sense for the government to sell on the alcohol to hotels who are having terrible problems obtaining it, shortages of which are having a negative effect on the tourist industry, especially in Bali.
The money could be used to provide benefits for those in need, such as for medical services or education, etc., or to promote tourism.
Destroying it would just seem to me to be a way of the Customs and Excise Office to say, "Look how clever we are and how well we are doing our job". It is a complete and utter waste, like throwing money down the drain.
Dennis Hooping
Jakarta
Antiterrorism curriculum--Dec. 10, p. 6
Last month the country's largest Muslim organization Nahdlatul Ulama organized an international seminar on antiterrorism. One of its agendas is to develop an antiterrorism curriculum in religious education. Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) is not the only institution that is developing an antiterrorism curriculum and its application. (By Suratno, Jakarta)
Your comments:
I agree with Suratno. The embryo of terrorism in Indonesia comes from the failure of religious education. Once we want to overcome terrorism, we have to reform such education.
Abu Laes
Jombang
I highly respect your courage to address the subject matter and your insights on the potential of education for the betterment of society and humanity. What you suggest will be regarded as a joke for many; however, it humbles me to know that there are people like you out there who are not hypocritical, rigid or self-absorbed with their own beliefs.
Thank you for such bravery. I wish you the best whenever you get the opportunity to implement this.
Rakyat
Texas
