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View all search resultsThe Denpasar District Court on Thursday sentenced a New Zealand citizen, Myra Lynna Williams, 27, to two-and-a-half years in prison for drug possession. The sentence was lighter than what was demanded by prosecutors, who sought a three-year prison sentence for her.
Personnel of the West Kalimantan Police and the Customs and Excise Directorate discovered a new technique for smuggling crystal methamphetamine from Malaysia to Pontianak, highlighting it as a province highly prone to smuggling attempts.
Officers from the Jambi Police have foiled an alleged attempt by an international drug syndicate to distribute a large number of drugs in the province. Five alleged members of the syndicate were arrested by personnel from the police’s narcotics division in an operation on Tuesday.
Authorities must tightened security in areas across North Kalimantan, especially Tarakan, because it has become the main entrance of crystal methamphetamine, locally known as sabu-sabu, from abroad into eastern Indonesia, a senior official has said.
Prosecutors have asked Semarang District Court’s panel of judges to sentence two Pakistani nationals, Muhammad Riaz, alias Mr Khan, and Faiq Akhtar, to death over allegedly smuggling 97 kilograms of crystal methamphetamines or sabu-sabu into the country.
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