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68 drug dealers given death sentence, says BNN

The National Narcotics Agency (BNN) says at least 68 people were on death row and awaiting execution for drug offenses in 2014

The Jakarta Post
Sukabumi
Tue, January 13, 2015

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68 drug dealers given death sentence, says BNN

The National Narcotics Agency (BNN) says at least 68 people were on death row and awaiting execution for drug offenses in 2014.

'€œTwo drug convicts on death row were executed in 2012, while the others, both Indonesians and foreigners, have yet to be executed,'€ BNN head Anang Iskandar said as quoted by Antara news agency in Sukabumi on Tuesday.

He said the Cibadak District Court in Sukabumi regency, West Java, recently sentenced two Iranians '€“ Mostafa Moradalivand and Sayed Hashem -- to death for their involvement in an international drug trafficking network.

The BNN arrested the two foreigners when they attempted to smuggle 40.1 kilograms of shabu-shabu (crystal methamphetamine) into Indonesia through Sukabumi waters. They hid the drugs at a location in Tangkuban Parahu Nature Reserve in Palabuhan Ratu district, West Java.

Anang said the two deserved the death sentence as drug abuse could damage future generations in Indonesia. He said the BNN praised the court'€™s decision to impose the death penalty on the two Iranians, a heavier sentence than the 20 years'€™ imprisonment demanded by the Cibadak Prosecutor'€™s Office.

'€œThere is no mercy for drug dealers. The sanction is clear '€“ a minimum four-year prison sentence and a maximum of death penalty as stipulated in Law No.35/2009 on narcotics,'€ said Anang.(+++)

Unlike drug dealers, he said, the BNN ensured that drug addicts underwent rehabilitation as they were considered victims. (ebf)

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