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.
Popular Reads
Top Results
No results found. Please check your search term and try again
Can't find what you're looking for?
View all search results
Popular Reads
Top Results
No results found. Please check your search term and try again
Can't find what you're looking for?
View all search resultsIndonesian fined for smuggling cigarettes to Brunei
An Indonesian was found guilty by the court for illegally possessing cigarettes.
Change text size
Gift Premium Articles
to Anyone
Share the best of The Jakarta Post with friends, family, or colleagues. As a subscriber, you can gift 3 to 5 articles each month that anyone can read—no subscription needed!
The 6 trillion cigarettes produced each year generates over 1.2 million tons of cigarette butt litter, which take years to break down. (Shutterstock/File)
T
hree individuals were ordered by the Magistrate’s Court on Monday to settle fines, including close to half-a-million-dollar in one case, for violating the Customs and Excise Order.
Magistrate Dewi Norlelawati Abdul Hamid ordered 40-year-old Indonesian Sutrisno to pay a fine of BND430,600 (US$386,916), or serve three years’ jail in default of payment, after he pleaded guilty to possessing 539 cartons of cigarettes at Pantai Serasa at 12:31 a.m. on May 4, 2018.
Bruneian Norazmi Osman was ordered to pay a fine of BND51,200, or serve 33 months’ jail in default of payment, after he pleaded guilty to possessing eight cartons of cigarettes at 3:40 p.m. on July 7, 2011; 27 cartons of cigarettes at 11:20 p.m. on March 15, 2012; 41 cartons of cigarettes, 17 cans of beer and two bottles of liquor at 6:02 a.m. on June 7, 2012; and 63 cartons of cigarettes, 17 cans of beer at 9:40 p.m. on Aug. 24, 2012, at the Kuala Lurah Control Post.
Meanwhile, 58-year-old local Padan bin Barauk was ordered to settle a fine of BND300, or serve three weeks’ jail in default of payment, after he pleaded guilty to possessing two bottles of liquor and 15 cans of beer at a house in Kampong Terunjing Baru, Lambak Kiri at 12:35 a.m. on Sept. 7, 2014.
