3 Floor Ruko In Tangerang Turned Into Ciu Drink Factory, Turnover Rp 7 Million Per Day

Police officers inspect a number of ciu drink making furniture/ Photo: DOk. Banten Police

TANGERANG - Tangerang Police have succeeded in revealing the home-made production of ciu alcoholic beverages at Ruko Bojong, Jl. Raya Pemda Tigaraksa, Cikupa District, Tangerang Regency.

"The case of producing and trading food ingredients that do not comply with safety standards and does not have a distribution permit. We know that the food ingredients are in the form of alcoholic beverages known as the ciu trade language," said Head of Public Relations of Banten Police AKBP Shinto Silitonga with Tangerang Police Chief KBP Wahyu Sri Bintoro at the shop where the ciu type alcoholic drink is made, Friday 5 November.

Shinto explained that the initial chronology of the Tangerang Police Criminal Investigation Unit's Resmob team received information from the public and an investigation was carried out in one of the shophouses in Bojong Village, Cikupa District.

Police officers inspect a number of ciu drink making furniture/ Photo: DOk. Banten Police

After that, one unit of four-wheeled Grand Max came out of the shop, followed by the Resmob team. After being on Jalan Raya Tigaraksa, the vehicle was stopped and a search was conducted. It turned out that there were 50 boxes in each box, each containing 24 bottles of ciu of various sizes. Furthermore, Shinto said, the development was carried out into shophouses and it turned out that several production equipment had been secured.

The evidence that was successfully secured from the shophouse was 4 distillation furnaces, 4 distillation pans, 95 filled pharmaceutical drums, 15 empty pharmaceutical drums, 25 gas cylinders, 3 gas stoves, 3 boxes of yeast, 2 blower fans, 10 jurygen from distillation, 1,175 Ciu-filled bottles are ready for distribution.

Shinto revealed that suspect BA (35) from Penjaringan, North Jakarta initially rented a three-story shophouse for one year in Bojong Village, Cikupa for a convection business. Then, after closing about four months ago, the suspect started to produce ciu-type alcoholic drinks in this shop-house.

Police officers inspect a number of ciu drink making furniture/ Photo: DOk. Banten Police

"For the ground floor of the shophouse, the suspect used to store the basic ingredients for making ciu namely yeast, brown rice and sugar in a large drum. Then these basic ingredients will be distilled into a distillation furnace on the second floor of the shophouse. will be put in a bottle and stored on the third floor of the shophouse," explained Shinto.

Meanwhile, Tangerang Police Chief KBP Wahyu Sri Bintoro added, for the ciu produced and sold by the suspect, there were three types with the characteristics of red bottle caps having 40 percent alcohol content, green bottle caps with 35 percent alcohol content and white bottle caps containing 40 percent alcohol content. 30 percent alcohol.

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"In a day the suspect can produce an average of 20 boxes each containing 24 bottles at a price of 15 thousand and 11 thousand per bottle. So the economic profit that the suspect has managed to get in one day reaches 6 to 7 million," said Wahyu Sri Bintoro.

The suspect will be charged with Article 140 in conjunction with Article 142 of the Republic of Indonesia Law number 18 of 2012 concerning Food with the threat of imprisonment for two years and Article 62 of the Republic of Indonesia Law number 8 of 1999 concerning Consumer Protection, with the threat of imprisonment for five years.