Metro Police Denies Having List of Artists Involved in Drugs

JAKARTA - Metro Jaya Police has denied information about the existence of a list of names of public figures or artists involved in narcotics abuse cases. The arrest of the artists is also called a pure development process.

"We don't have a list (of artists entangled in drugs) that's a lie, that's the issue," said Director of the Narcotics Investigation of the Metro Jaya Police Kombes Mukti Juharsa to reporters, Saturday, January 15.

A series of arrests of artists for narcotics, continued Mukti, were the result of development. Where, starting with the information about the circulation of narcotics.

"Cases for arresting artists are cases of development of cases and reports or information from the public," he said.

Then, Mukti also emphasized that artists who have been arrested in narcotics abuse cases are not related. Although, there are some that are indeed in one series.

"They use different drugs. Every time we make an arrest, we definitely develop it and there is an involvement of the artist that we arrest," said Mukti.

For information, Metro Jaya Police has arrested several artists for being involved in drug abuse cases. For example, Naufal Samudra. He was arrested for using LSD.

Later, the police also arrested the comedian Fico Fachriza. In this case, the police confiscated a pack of cigarettes containing 1.45 grams of synthetic tobacco.