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Issues of the day: Prison drug ring busted, again
The Central Java branch of the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) has exposed a drug ring in a prison on Nusakambangan Island in Cilacap, Central Java, where two convicts were found to be directing the movement of crystal methamphetamine across the country
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em>The Central Java branch of the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) has exposed a drug ring in a prison on Nusakambangan Island in Cilacap, Central Java, where two convicts were found to be directing the movement of crystal methamphetamine across the country.
The BNN team busted Sartoni alias Toni and Sutrisno alias Pak Tris for directing the trafficking of drugs from inside the prison. The team confiscated two cell phones used in the convicts' operations.
Your comments:
This news is ironic, but it is not surprising.
For a long time the public, via social media, has complained about drug traffic in prisons and the involvement of officials and guards of the penitentiary in this business.
Why is the BNN in Central Java complaining about this now?
If the BNN listened to the public's complaints, the penitentiary would not be a part of the drug distribution networks. It is a fact that the penitentiary has failed as a correctional facility, while the mentality of guards and officials is broken.
Resi Adiyasa
I don't believe that such activities can happen continuously for so long right under the noses of the prison guards and officials.
There's got to be some collusion somewhere and somebody is being paid off somewhere.
The minimum that must befall the prison officials should be negligence and dereliction of duty for allowing such activities.
These are not stupid officials; charge them and you'd find out how smart they really are.
Killing a bunch of drug mules will not solve Indonesia's drug problems, neither is it fair nor just.
These are the people who should be facing the firing squad, these are the masterminds.
These are controllers and their cronies that allow them to operate from the relative safety of a prison.
Pauloh
Drug users take these drugs by their own volition. Drug dealers do not force drugs down a person's throat. People choose to take these drugs. It's not a government's job to babysit children and make sure they do not take drugs.
That is a parent's job. Too many people rely on the government to protect their children.
Parents are the only ones who can truly protect their own child.
And for those reasons I do not feel drug smugglers and dealers deserve death.
That should be reserved for murderers and rapists, as it has always been. Plus, how can you expect the government to stop drugs when part of the problem is government corruption allowing these things to happen?
Barry Freed
I should say some of the prison guards are in on the action and need to meet a firing squad as well. And why are these two drug lords not on the death-penalty waiting list?
Deddy K
