Tempted By A Wage Of Rp. 100 Million From General Yusuf, Ustaz SA Producing Sabu In His House

Junjuk Yusuf (left), the controller of a methamphetamine production house in Pringgasela, East Lombok Regency (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - Ustaz's house with the initials SA (45) in Pringgasela, East Lombok Regency, West Nusa Tenggara, was raided by the Special Team of the NTB Regional Police's Narcotics Research Directorate. The raid was carried out because the house was used as a place for crystal methamphetamine production.

To investigators, SA admitted that he wanted to use his house as a place for crystal methamphetamine production because YM alias General Yusuf promised to pay Rp100 million worth of pay every month.

"The promise of wages was based on Ustaz's confession before investigators," said the Director of the NTB Police for Drugs (Dirresnarkoba) Kombes Pol Helmi Kwarta Kusuma Putra Rauf in Mataram, as reported by Antara, Monday, November 23.

Ustaz SA admitted that wages were the cost of producing crystal methamphetamine which was brought to him by General Yusuf. Meanwhile, General Yusuf is a Class II member of Mataram prison and has been arrested.

To investigators, Ustadz SA admitted that he had no experience. He admitted that he would receive a short course from an acquaintance of General Yusuf who was in Malaysia.

"So the making of crystal methamphetamine at Ustaz's house will be taught by friends of General Yusuf's acquaintances in Malaysia. This ustaz is taught 'by video call'," he said.

In this regard, it is said that investigators are still studying the information. Who is the tutor who is said to be from Malaysia and whether the short course has been implemented or not.

"Likewise with the production. Is it with the tools and raw materials that their group has produced? We are still exploring it," said Helmi.

Other information states that investigators have known the origin of the raw material in the chemical liquid form. Goods shipped directly from Malaysia. The sender was an acquaintance of General Yusuf while working as an Indonesian Migrant Worker (PMI).

The raw materials were sent by his colleagues from Malaysia after General Yusuf transferred Rp. 300 million. Orders for raw materials are made via telephone.

General Yusuf ordered it from inside Mataram Class IIA Prison. Orders were directed directly to Ustaz's shabu production house in Pringgasela, East Lombok Regency.

General Yusuf, with the initials MY, is a drug convict who has served four years in prison in Mataram Class IIA Prison. In his case, General Yusuf was sentenced to 10 years in prison by the Mataram District Court Judge in 2016.

Even in his criminal record, General Yusuf is on the Interpol fugitive list in connection with the theft case in Brunei Darussalam and also in Malaysia which led to the murder of the victim. This case occurred when General Yusuf worked as PMI.

His arrest began with a raid on Ustad's shabu production house in Pringgasela, East Lombok Regency, on Saturday, November 21, afternoon.

The ustad with the initials SA was arrested along with a man with the initials RI (43), who allegedly played a role as his messenger.

From the raids carried out by a joint team of the NTB Regional Police and Narcotics Unit of the East Lombok Police under the control of AKP I Made Yogi Purusa Utama, a room suspected of being a place for shabu-shabu production was found.

The results of the search were secured by various types of chemical liquids in white box jerry cans. Some say liquid mekaphelamit, mixsofir, and dimethyl sulfoxide.

There was also a fire extinguisher tube, a box of aluminum foil, an electric stove, a measuring cup, and a glass cup.

The existence of the shabu production house was the result of the development of information from eight people who had been arrested at a boarding house in Pancor, East Lombok Regency, with evidence of dozens of grams of shabu-shabu.

Eight people were arrested on Saturday, November 21 that afternoon with the initials SR (24), RS (27), HA (24), RP (25), LN (27), RAK (36), HA (37), and SH ( 32).

Now all the perpetrators and evidence have been secured at the NTB Regional Police Headquarters. Those who are still undergoing a series of investigations are threatened with Article 112 Paragraph 2, Article 113 Paragraph 2, Article 114 Paragraph 2, Article 132 Paragraph 1 of Indonesian Law Number 35/2009 concerning Narcotics with the heaviest punishment of death.