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he Jakarta Police along with the Food and Drug Monitoring Agency (BPOM) have found pills containing a combination of paracetamol, carisoprodol and caffeine (PCC) in a pharmacy in Palmerah, West Jakarta.

“We found five PCC pills in a pharmacy in Palmerah, West Jakarta,” Jakarta Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Argo Yuwono said on Wednesday as quoted by kompas.com.

A suspect, identified only as RPA, allegedly distributed the pills from the pharmacy.

The five-day raid, carried out from Sept. 13 to Sept. 18, followed an incident that occurred the previous week in Kendari, Southeast Sulawesi, in which 66 teenagers were hospitalized after being intoxicated with PCC.

The pills reportedly caused them to act strangely before they fell unconscious.

The BPOM said the drugs had been distributed illegally and on a massive scale in many parts of the country.

Besides the PCC, the joint BPOM and police team also seized thousands of expired and illegal pills.

Five other people identified only as FZ, JI, SY, JO and MC, who all worked in different pharmacies have also been arrested in the case.

They have been charged under the Health and Psychotropic Law, Argo said.