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View all search resultsRiau court sentences drug courier to death for smuggling meth from Malaysia
The National Narcotics Agency (BNN) has previously reported that the Indonesia-Malaysia border has thousands of informal crossing points, making it difficult for authorities to effectively monitor illicit activities.
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Busted: The Surabaya Police display narcotics and drugs, as well as drug suspects, during a press conference on the progress of the 2018 Semeru anti-drug operation at the Surabaya Police headquarters in Surabaya, East Java, on April 26. (Antara/Moch Asim)
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he Bengkalis District Court in Riau has sentenced an East Java man to death after finding him guilty of attempting to smuggle nearly 40 kilograms of methamphetamine from Malaysia.
During a court hearing on Wednesday, presiding judge Manata Binsar Tua Samosir stated that the defendant, Mochammad Hery, violated Article 114 of the 2009 Narcotics Law, which regulates drug trafficking involving more than five grams of narcotics.
“The defendant acted with careful and systematic planning and was linked to an international drug syndicate. The sheer quantity of narcotics involved posed a serious threat to public safety,” Manata said in the verdict.
He added that the court found no mitigating factors throughout the trial. “Therefore, the court sentences the defendant to the maximum penalty, which is death,” the judge concluded.
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Head of the Intelligence Division at the Bengkalis Prosecutor’s Office, Wahyu Ibrahim, said the court’s ruling was in line with the sentence sought by prosecutors.
“The prosecution demanded the death penalty because of the massive potential impact on the public had the defendant not been apprehended. This was not small-scale drug dealing, but the trafficking of dozens of kilograms of narcotics. That is why we sought the maximum sentence,” Wahyu said.
