DENPASAR - The Denpasar District Court, Bali, has sentenced a Palestinian foreign national named Mohammed FM Hamayda (40) to two years and six months (2.5 years) in prison for storing drugs, such as marijuana, methamphetamine, and ecstasy in his boarding house.
The prison sentence was read by the Hamayda Court of Judges in a verdict hearing at the Denpasar District Court, Bali, Thursday, March 5.
In the ruling read out in front of the trial, the judge considered that the defendant had been proven to be legally and convincingly guilty of committing a drug crime, namely without the right to possess, store, control, or provide a Schedule I narcotic plant and without the right or against the law to possess, store, control, or provide a Schedule I narcotic in the form of a plant.
This violates Article 609 Paragraph (1) letter a of the Republic of Indonesia Law Number 1 of 2023 concerning the Criminal Code as amended and supplemented by the Republic of Indonesia Law Number 1 of 2026 concerning Criminal Adjustment and the second violates Article 111 paragraph (1) of Law R.I Number 35 of 2009 concerning Narcotics as applied again based on the Republic of Indonesia Law Number 1 of 2026 concerning Criminal Adjustment.
"To judge, to impose a sentence on the defendant with a sentence of imprisonment for two years and six months (2.5 years) less than the defendant has been in custody," said the judge.
In addition to the body penalty, the defendant was also sentenced to pay a fine of Rp. 200 million.
With the provision, if within one month the fine is not paid, then the defendant's assets or income are confiscated and auctioned by the Prosecutor to pay off.
"If the seizure and auction of assets are not enough, then it is replaced with a prison sentence of 80 days," the judge added.
The decision of the Panel of Judges is lower than the prosecutor's request for the defendant to be sentenced to four years and six months and a fine of Rp. 1 billion. The panel of judges considered mitigating factors, the defendant had never been convicted, regretted his actions, and would not repeat them.
Regarding the verdict, the defendant through his legal advisor stated that he was still thinking.
The defendant's legal advisor was given one week by the panel of judges to convey his attitude, whether he would accept or make an appeal.
Previously, in the indictment of the Public Prosecutor (JPU), it was stated that the disclosure of the case of drug trafficking involving foreign nationals began from information received by officers of the National Narcotics Agency (BNNP) Bali.
It was explained that there was drug abuse and illicit trafficking in the dormitory, at Gang Kesambi Indah Number 27, Kerobokan Village, North Kuta, Badung.
On Thursday, July 31, 2025 at around 09.00 Wita, BNNP Bali officers visited the location to conduct an inspection. There was a man who claimed to be named Mohammed FM Hamayda who matched the identity shown.
Then, the officers searched the body, clothes, and found evidence of a black TECNO SPARK cellphone in the pocket of the pants he was wearing. The apparatus continued to search the room. Sure enough, on the floor various evidence of drugs was found.
Like, a plastic clip containing clear crystals containing 0.27 grams of net weight of methamphetamine; A white cigarette wrapper contains a plastic clip containing 6 pink pills/tablets and one broken pill/tablet of purple color containing ecstasy weighing 1.55 grams of net weight.
In addition, three plastic clips containing dried plants, namely marijuana weighing 10.96 grams net; A brown handbag containing one bundle of plastic clips and one pack of vapir paper; A black digital scale; a methamphetamine inhaler.
After that, Hamayda was taken to the Bali BNNP office for further examination until he was finally tried at the Denpasar District Court.
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