JAKARTA - The Narcotics Investigation Directorate of the Metro Jaya Police recorded significant achievements in eradicating the illicit circulation and abuse of narcotics throughout 2025. A total of 7,426 police reports related to drug cases were handled, an increase of around 1.1 percent compared to 2024.
Director of Narcotics Investigation of the Metro Jaya Police, Kombes Pol. Ahmad David, said that from thousands of cases, the police had determined 9,894 suspects. The majority of the suspects were men with 9,162 people, while women numbered 732 people. In addition, there were 56 children who faced the law and 51 foreign nationals.
"This disclosure is part of the implementation of the priority program of the President of the Republic of Indonesia in combating drugs, which is carried out in stages by the Narcotics Directorate of the Metro Jaya Police together with the ranks," said David in his presentation at the 2025 Year-End Release (RAT) activity at the BPMJ Building, South Jakarta, Wednesday, October 31, 2025.
David revealed that the role of thousands of suspects who had been secured consisted of 21 suspects as producers, one suspect as a dealer, 3,445 suspects as distributors, and 6,427 suspects as users or abusers of narcotics.
He said that out of the total suspects, around 35 percent or 3,460 people were processed through the criminal justice mechanism, while 56 percent or 6,420 suspects underwent medical and social rehabilitation.
"We view abusers or addicts as victims of the drug crime itself, so that a rehabilitative approach becomes a priority," he explained.
David said that throughout 2025, the Narcotics Division of the Metro Jaya Police seized narcotics evidence with a total weight of around 3.291 tons.
The evidence includes 874.94 kilograms of methamphetamine, 693.86 kilograms of marijuana, 644.95 kilograms of synthetic tobacco or gorilla tobacco, 67.7 kilograms of liquid methamphetamine, and 111,120 ecstasy.
In addition, 1,745,560 dangerous drugs, 23.89 kilograms of etomidate, 1.56 kilograms of heroin, 1.12 kilograms of ecstasy raw materials, 11.74 kilograms of ketamine, 2.49 kilograms of narcotic liquid, and 16.34 grams of cocaine were also secured. If calculated based on the selling price in the black market, the total evidence is estimated to be worth around IDR 1.724 trillion.
"This disclosure has saved around 10,164,673 lives from potential damage due to drug abuse," he said.
Furthermore, David said that there were seven prominent cases throughout 2025 that received widespread attention from the public. One of them was the disclosure of a 612.6 kilogram synthetic tobacco home factory in the Bekasi area.
Then, the discovery of 143 kilograms of marijuana from the North Sumatra network in Tangerang, 516 kilograms of methamphetamine from the Golden Triangle network in Bekasi, thousands of etomidate and ecstasy from the Southeast Asian network in Bogor, to the discovery of an ecstasy factory in West Jakarta.
"The Central Jakarta Metro Police also thwarted the circulation of 103 kilograms of methamphetamine which was prepared to be distributed during the 2026 New Year's Eve party," he explained.
As a preventive effort, David added, the Metro Jaya Police had formed 32 anti-narcotics Tangguh Village posts in a number of areas. The post is a means of empowering the community to prevent and combat the dangers of drugs, starting from the smallest environment.
"We want to build the strongest defense fortress, namely the family and the surrounding environment, in order to save the younger generation from the threat of drugs," he concluded.
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