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Two Pakistanis, one US citizen on trial for drug smuggling
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Police detain two suspected drug smugglers identified as DT (in blue) and MR (in red), two of eight members of the so-called Pakistani Group, in Jepara, Central Java, on Jan, 27 . (JP/Suherdjoko)
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wo Pakistanis, one American and five Indonesians are on trial for allegedly smuggling 97 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine, locally known as sabu, through 194 Chinese-made generators.
The National Narcotics Agency (BNN) cracked the crime on January 27 after being informed by Interpol. The agency raided a warehouse and disbanded the newly arrived generators belonging to a firm named Jepara Raya Internasional in Pekalongan village, Jepara, Central Java.
Prosecutor Edi Budiyanto accused the defendants of violating Articles 112, 113 and 114 of the 2009 Narcotics Law. They allegedly hid the drugs in the piston of the machines, which were dispatched from the port of Guangzhou in China to Tanjung Emas port in Semarang, Central Java.
"The smuggled sabu has a total weight of 97.15 kilograms," Edi said during the trial at Semarang District Court.
Court spokesperson Annastacia Tyas said the trial was ultimately postponed since the eight defendants had not been provided with interpreters.
“The Criminal Law Procedures Code [KUHAP] states that all trials must be executed in Indonesian," she said. (ags)
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Suherdjoko in Semarang contributed to this story
