Police Reveal First Child Of Lilis Karlina Consumption Of Drugs, Gets From Recidivist

Purwakarta Police Chief AKBP Edwar Zulkarnain during a virtual press conference (YouTube Paragram Official)

JAKARTA - Lilis Karlina's 15-year-old child and in grade 2 junior high school, RD is involved in a criminal act of drug abuse. Not only as a user, but the child also distributes certain drugs without a distribution permit.

Purwakarta Police Chief AKBP Edwar Zulkarnain said that child suspects started taking drugs when they were 13 years old. "So this child is 13-14 years old but hangs out with the average person aged over 20 years," he said in a virtual press conference on Tuesday, March 14, 2023.

Edwar explained that one of the adults known to the 48-year-old sworddut, I (26l, who has now also been named a suspect, is a recedivist.

"The suspect today happens to be a recidivist who recently left a correctional institution who was previously sentenced to 6 years," he said.

Suspect I is a drug dealer of methamphetamine type, where RD, who was then 13 years old, began to get to know and try drugs. Since then, Lilis Karlina's son has regularly consumed drugs.

Edwar also revealed that from RD's introduction to I there was an agreement. "There they have a verbal commitment, that 'Okay I take methamphetamine from you, I buy it', the price is IDR 300 thousand for one package, where this child uses methamphetamine up to 2 times a week," he said.

This child took methamphetamine to the suspect today. The commitment of the suspect today is to help this child suspect market or to find customers or consumers. So there is symbiosis between them," he continued.

The Purwakarta Police Chief also revealed the motive of Lilis Karlina's child until he finally took drugs and circulated drugs without a distribution permit.

"So, because he is a user as well as a dealer, of course there are two motives. His motive as a user is because he sparked fun and comfort. Then his motive as a dealer is certainly economic, because he gets a fairly big profit," he said.

"The results of our interview with the suspect, the child gets a profit of Rp. 700 thousand a day. The average is above Rp. 1 million, once above Rp. 3 million. So that's the profit earned, causing the main motive for children to distribute narcotics," concluded Edwar Zulkarnain.