BNN Bali Tightens International Network Drug Supervision At Airports

The Bali Province National Narcotics Agency has tightened the supervision of passenger luggage at I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport to anticipate illicit drug trafficking, especially those involving international narcotics networks.

Head of the Bali BNNP Eradication Division Kombes I Made Sinar Subawa said the search at Ngurah Rai Airport had been carried out since Wednesday (30/7) along with 13 BNNP ranks throughout Indonesia.

Subawa explained specifically for Bali, one of the modes that is often found in the illicit trafficking of narcotics, namely through the entrance to I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport.

"Most of them involve foreign nationals ranging from Russia, Ukraine, Malaysia, Brazil, America, Kazakhstan to South Africa," he said as quoted by ANTARA.

The search at the entrance to Bali is also a follow-up to the direction of the Head of BNN Indonesia, Komjen Martinus Hukom, which specifically highlighted the illicit drug trafficking from the international network of Latin American cartels that continue to expand the drug market in Indonesia.

In the drug expansion, Bali is one of the targets targeted to market drugs.

Subawa explained that Bali as an international tourism area is certainly inseparable from the threat of drug abuse and illicit trafficking.

One form of BNN's seriousness in anticipating the illicit trafficking of international drugs is in collaboration with Customs and Excise, Angkasa Pura and other stakeholders conducting investigations since Wednesday (30/7) at the International Arrival Terminal of Bali's I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport, which is directly led by the Head of the Eradication of the Bali Province BNN, Kombes Pol. I Made Sinar Subawa.

According to him, the examination was routinely carried out considering that until July 2025, the Bali Province BNN had succeeded in uncovering 35 narcotics cases, including international and cross-provincial networks.

In addition to involving related officers, the examination also involved K9 animals or sniffer dogs belonging to the Bali Province BNN and Customs and Excise.

"This joint activity is expected to minimize the efforts of outsiders who intend to send and distribute narcotics illicit goods to Bali," concluded Subawa.