TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Finance Ministry through the Directorate General of Customs and Excise together with the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) exposed three cases of drug smuggling. They also confiscated more than 110.84 kilograms of crystal meth and 18,300 ecstasy pills.

“It was exposed based on information we received from members of the public and intelligence investigators that there would be a drug smuggling,” said Finance Minister Sri Mulyani during a press conference in Jakarta on Wednesday, February 7.

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The first case took place on January 20, 2018, which involved an Aceh-Padang international drug smuggling network that was sent from Malaysia over Aceh waters on a speedboat. Authorities confiscated seven packages containing crystal meth weighing 7.2 kilograms.

The second smuggling case was on January 23, 2018, where BNN and Customs officers arrested a suspect that was smuggling two packages of crystal meth in North Sumatra.

Meanwhile, the third case took place in Medan-Binjai in North Sumatra where authorities confiscated 31.21 kilograms of crystal meth and 18,000 ecstasy pills.

Sri Mulyani said that it has caused the country to lose trillions of rupiah.

Head of BNN Budi Waseso said that authorities arrested 12 suspects in these three cases. He also said that it is a proof that Aceh and North Sumatra are areas ripe for narcotics trafficking in Indonesia.

Dias Prasongko