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Urine test results of two Susi Air pilots will be ready next week: BNN
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President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo (center) inspects confiscated narcotics while being accompanied by National Narcotics Agency (BNN) Head Budi Waseso (left) and Coordinating Politics, Legal, and Security Affairs Minister Wiranto (right) at the National Monument complex, Central Jakarta, on Dec. 6, 2016. The BNN are currently investigating two Susi Air pilots for failing preliminary drug tests. (JP/Seto Wardhana)
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ational Narcotics Agency (BNN) spokesperson Sr. Comr. Slamet Pribadi said on Thursday that the urine tests of two pilots working for Susi Air, an airliner owned by Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjiastuti, whose preliminary tests indicated they had used drugs, would be completed next week.
“[The results would be completed in] three or four days. Probably Monday or Tuesday [next week],” Slamet was quoted by tempo.co as saying.
He said the initial tests that were conducted in Cilacap, Central Java, were a rapid tests so they needed to be further processed at the BNN’s laboratory in Jakarta.
Once his agency received the results, he went on, the BNN would investigate further whether the pilots netted at Cilicap’s Tunggul Wulung Airport were just users or involved in the drug trade.
“If they are just users, we recommend rehabilitation. But if they are involved in drug trafficking, they should be held responsible through the legal process,” he said, adding that the pilots were currently being questioned at BNN headquarters in Jakarta.
(Read also: Ministry, narcotics agency to intensify supervision of Indonesian pilots)
Separately, Transportation Ministry spokesperson Agoes Soebagio said the pilots had been prohibited from flying indefinitely.
“The pilots are now intensively being examined by the ministry’s air safety and health department, as well as by the BNN,” Agoes said.
Susi Air president director Sudrajat could not be reached for comment. (jun)
