The two police officers, Adj. Sr. Comr. Idha Endri Prastiono and Brig. Harahap, will reportedly return home after the Royal Malaysian Police stated that the pair would be released due to a lack of sufficient evidence to prove that they had smuggled drugs in Malaysia.

'€œThey allegedly have conducted a disciplinary violation because they went to Malaysia without permission from their boss,'€ Rafli told reporters on Tuesday evening, as quoted by kompas.com.

However, he said that he could not speculate about the punishment the police would impose on Idha and Harahap because such a decision would be determined after the police questioned the pair.

Besides the plan to grill the two officers on their possible disciplinary violation, police investigators from the drug and corruption directorates would also question Idha and Harahap, Rafli said. However, he refused to disclose the violations that had been conducted by the two police officers that required them to face the two directorates.

'€œI cannot give detailed information [about why the police wish to question Idha and Harahap at the corruption and drug directorates] because such matters are still under investigation. [Further investigation is required] before the police name them suspects,'€ said Rafli.

In late August, Malaysian authorities arrested Idha and Harahap in Kuching over suspicions that they intended to accept a package containing drugs from a Filipino drug mule, identified as Chusi or Sonya, who had been arrested at Kuala Lumpur International Airport a short time earlier. (alz)

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