Pamtas Task Force Fails To Smuggle Land Cruiser Cars From Malaysia, Driver Escapes

PONTIANAK - Indonesian Pamtas Task Force personnel-MLY Mechanical Infantry Battalion 643/Wanara Sakti foiled the smuggling of a Toyota Land Cruiser VX 80 car from Malaysia, in the Segorong area, Sewide District, Bengkayang Regency.

"The vehicle was secured by personnel from the Post Chef Jagoi Babang Task Force Pamtas Mechanical Battalion 643/Wns led by Dan SSK II Chef Jagoi Babang First Lieutenant Inf Oki Abri Maestro along with personnel from the Customs Action Team for the West Kalimantan Regional Office in the Segorong area, Saturday (11/9) at around 22.00 WIB. ," said Dansatgas Pamtas Mechanical Infantry Battalion 643/Wns, Lieutenant Colonel (Inf) Hendro Wicaksono, quoted by Antara, Sunday, September 12.

The arrest began with information from the public that 1 (one) unit of Toyota Land Cruiser VX 80 had passed from Malaysia to Indonesia.

The SSK II Commander Koki Jagoi Babang followed up on the information by contacting the Customs and Excise Action Team and conducting joint patrols for sweeping and chasing from Jagoi Babang Subdistrict to Sewide Subdistrict.

"Precisely in the Segorong area, Sewide District, it was found the car in question, namely the Toyota Land Cruiser VX 80 type, then the Pamtas Task Force personnel and the Customs and Excise Action Team forcibly stopped and the car stopped with the engine still running, the right door was open but the driver succeeded. run away," he said.

Currently, evidence of one unit of Toyota Land Cruiser VX 80 has been handed over to the Customs and Excise office of the West Kalimantan Regional Office for further inspection. Meanwhile, one of the perpetrators who fled has his name pocketed and is still in the process of being searched.

"Due to this vulnerability, we Pamtas Task Force will increase and tighten supervision along the Indonesia-Malaysia border line," said Dansatgas.

Meanwhile, Dan SSK II Koki Jagoi Babang, First Lieutenant (Inf) Oki Abri Maestro said the success of the Pamtas Task Force in thwarting the smuggling of cars from Malaysia was the result of good synergy with CIQS agencies at the border, including good relations with the community so that information about illegal activities was obtained. on the border.

Head of the Jagoi Babang Customs Office, Junanto Kurniawan, said the illegal car was confiscated by Customs and will then be auctioned off by the state and the smugglers will still be sought by the relevant authorities.

"This is due to the high synergy between CIQS agencies at the Jagoi Babang area border, and this is the first arrest in 2021," he said.