TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Aviation Security (Avsec) officers at Sultan Hasanuddin International Airport in Makassar, South Sulawesi, foiled the shipment of 500 explosive detonators after they were detected by X-ray.
"We received a report from Avsec airport that they found five cardboard-wrapped packets alleged as detonators," South Sulawesi Police spokesperson Comr. Sr. Dicky Sondani said in Makassar on Sunday (11/6).
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Based on the information from the Avsec officer, the ready-to-ship detonators were put in five cardboard boxes to be sent by using express delivery service Jalur Nugraha Ekakurir (JNE). The officers were suspicious of the five boxes after they were scanned. Later they ordered the courier carrying the packages to open them and found the detonators. The packages were labeled as documents.
The packages were sent by H Jamaluddin Daeng Karaman, a resident of Sungguminasa, GowaRegency, South Sulawesi, and the receiver was Haji Raji, a resudent of MT Haryono street No. 24, Katapan, West Kalimantan.
"The packets were originally going to be sent by using Garuda Indonesia airline with flight no. GA-611 to Pontianak, West Kalimantan," Dicky explained.
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