TheJakartaPost
Please Update your browser
Your browser is out of date, and may not be compatible with our website. A list of the most popular web browsers can be found below.
Just click on the icons to get to the download page.
Meth allegedly mailed by RI migrant worker in Taiwan
Change Size
Central Java Narcotics Agency Head Tri Agus Heru Prasetyo (second right) holds a package containing 11 grams of crystal methamphetamine allegedly mailed by M, an Indonesian migrant worker in Taiwan, during a press conference in Semarang on Wednesday. The recipient of the package, MDS, her farmer husband in Pati, Central Java, has been arrested. Also attending the conference were enforcement and prosecution head of Central Java-Yogyakarta Customs office, Agus Suyanto (left); the head of the office, Untung Basuki (second left), and processing center head of the Semarang Post Office, Sony Fajar. (The Jakarta Post/Suherdjoko)
A
n Indonesian migrant worker in Taiwan, identified only with the initial M, allegedly sent a package containing 11 grams of crystal methamphetamine to her husband, MDS, who lives in Pati, Central Java.
The narcotics were disguised inside a package of tea, said Agus Suyanto, the enforcement and prosecution head of the Central Java-Yogyakarta Customs office.
“The package arrived at the Semarang Post Office [in Semarang, Central Java]. The detection dog sensed something suspicious. We opened it and tested the crystals found inside at laboratory,” he said on Wednesday.
Read also: Slank 'sahur' with recovering addicts in anti-drug gesture
Thanks to cooperation with the post office and the Central Java Narcotics Agency (BNNP), the alleged recipient, MDS, who is a farmer from Bermi village in Gembong district, was arrested.
“MDS was arrested on Tuesday. We have six days to investigate if he is part of an international drug ring or merely a user,” Central Java BNNP Head Tri Agus Heru Prasetyo said, adding that it was the second time the agency had foiled the shipment of narcotics via mail this year.
He said the majority of smuggled narcotics to Central Java were from China, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand and Germany.
Also on Wednesday, the Semarang Metropolitan Police announced they had arrested drug dealer suspect Arvian Nova Prasetyo and seized 100 ecstasy pills and 1.5 grams of crystal meth.
“He was arrested on June 12 after police officers became suspicious after seeing him digging near a tree. It turned out there were ecstasy pills in there,” said Semarang Metropolitan Police chief Sr. Comr. Abiyoso Seno Aji. (bbs)
