Drug Circulation In Banjarmasin Starts Targeting Traders

JAKARTA - Banjarmasin Police, South Kalimantan, revealed that drug trafficking in Banjarmasin is currently targeting traders. This is proven by the disclosure of drug cases and the perpetrator is a used clothing dealer.

"We succeeded in uncovering drug cases and the perpetrators were traders of used clothing," said Head of the Banjarmasin Police Narcotics Detective Police Commissioner Mars Suryo Kartiko in Banjarmasin, as reported by Antara, Friday, May 28.

He said, from the information, this used clothing merchant is suspected of frequently conducting shabu-shabu drug transactions.

Obtaining this information, officers immediately conducted an investigation to reveal and prove that drug trafficking had targeted the traffickers.

Not long after, on Friday, May 21 at noon, at around 12.30 WITA, the police searched the house of the perpetrator with the initials KS alias Galuh (53), a resident of Jalan Kuripan, Cempaka Putih Complex, Kuripan Kec. East Banjarmasin.

During a search, the police from the Banjarmasin Police Narcotics Detective Unit found evidence of 10 packages of crystal methamphetamine with a net weight of 6.25 grams.

"The disclosure of this case proves that the current drug trafficking has entered into clothing traders and this will be of our concern to continue to uncover and eradicate drug trafficking in this city," said the middle ranking police officer.

Kompol Suryo, the familiar nickname of Kasat Resnarkoba, said that the female actor has now been detained for further examination and legal proceedings for the criminal act he has committed.

From the results of a provisional investigation, where every person without rights or against the law, owns, keeps, controls or provides narcotics group I, not plants weighing more than five grams as referred to in Article 112 paragraph (2) of Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 35 of 2009 concerning Narcotics in threatened with a minimum of 5 years imprisonment.

"We urge all people in this city to stay away from drugs and not to become a dealer once in a while, let alone a dealer, if they are proven to have committed a narcotics crime, they will be dealt with strictly in accordance with the applicable law," said Suryo, who was once the Head of West Banjarmasin Police.