2019 Sudden Spike in Vehicle Smuggling Bewilders Sri Mulyani
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18 December 2019 11:04 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati announced that the smuggling of luxury vehicles, both cars and motorcycles, experienced a significant hike in 2019.
“I don’t know exactly why, this why we will look deeper, but the rise itself is astonishing,” said Sri Mulyani in Tanjung Priok, Tuesday, December 17.
However, she suspects that the illegal activity thrived in 2019 due to the fact that the country was concentrated in transitioning to a new administration.
In terms of foiling the number of smuggling attempts, the Finance Ministry managed to stop the smuggling of 91 luxury vehicles and 3,956 high-end motorcycles across numerous Indonesian regions. The total value of these smuggled cars is said to reach RP315.99 billion while motorcycles amounted to Rp13.71 billion.
91 cars were smuggled into Indonesia from 2018 to 2019. Customs and excise foiled five smuggling attempts involving 7 illegal vehicles in 2018 while 2019 saw 84 smuggled luxury cars in 57 cases. Meanwhile, there were 22 cases of motorcycle smuggling that involved 3,956 motorcycles where 2,693 of them taking place in 2019.
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