Palembang Airport Cargo Security Authority Fails To Smuggle 1.4 Kilograms Of Dried Marijuana

PALEMBANG - The smuggling of dried marijuana weighing 1.4 kilograms was thwarted by the Palembang Airport cargo security authority on Friday, May 13, which was on standby for 24 hours.

At that time, officers managed to detect the class 1 drug through an examination at the X-Rey machine even though it was wrapped in such a way as to use black plastic to disguise it.

The excellent supervision of collaboration between Avsec and TNI/Polri officers is the key to the successful smuggling of prohibited objects, especially drugs through the cargo of the delivery of goods at Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II Airport in Palembang, South Sumatra.

The statement was made by the Commander of the Palembang Vocational High School Air Base Colonel Pnb Sigit Gatot Prasetyo as part of the security authority for Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II Airport, to reporters in Palembang, Saturday.

According to Sigit, the prime of the surveillance collaboration was tested after the security authorities again thwarted efforts to smuggle marijuana-type drugs at the Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II Airport cargo terminal.

"Yes, in the midst of the congestion and busy delivery of cargo from the Airport Avtec officers, they remained careful and deft, reported the findings and it was revealed that the contents were marijuana," he said.

According to him, the marijuana was about to be sent through a provider of goods delivery services in Palembang City and aimed at Lombok City, West Nusa Tenggara.

"Then next, the findings will be further processed by personnel from the South Sumatra Regional Police's Narcotics Investigation Directorate, with the hope that in the near future the owner will be caught," he added.

Sigit stated that the failure of the drug smuggling attempt was not the only result of the surveillance collaboration carried out by the airport security authorities.

His party reported that previously three attempts to smuggle marijuana drugs had been thwarted in various ways to trick officers.

Among them, officers thwarted the smuggling of marijuana weighing two kilograms wrapped in boxes of Pempek food, 460 grams of marijuana, then one kilogram to Jakarta. All of this was revealed in the period August 2022 until May 2023.

"All of this is part of efforts to eradicate drug trafficking which is a common enemy as a joint commitment and service to the country," he concluded as quoted by ANTARA, Saturday, May 13.