Cool! 8 Sub-Districts In Sleman DIY Declaration To Clean Up From Drugs

Sleman Regent Kustini Sri Purnomo signed the commitment to the Drug Clean Village Declaration (ANTARA)

SLEMAN - Eight sub-districts in Sleman Regency, Yogyakarta Special Region (DIY) declared the Declaration of a Drug Clean Village (Bersinar) and an Anti-Drug Tough Village at the Parasamya Hall today.

The declaration was carried out by reading the declaration and signing the commitment made by the Regent of Sleman, Kustini Sri Purnomo, officials, and all guests present.

Sleman Regent Kustini Sri Purnomo welcomed the selection of eight sub-districts in Sleman Regency as Shining Villages and Anti-Drug Tough Villages.

He thanked the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) and the Indonesian National Police and their staff for supporting the government's efforts to break the chain of drug trafficking and drug abuse in Sleman Regency.

"Hopefully we can involve the community more in preventing public ills regarding drug trafficking and abuse, even to the RT/RW level. That way, a resilient society will be realized," he said as quoted by Antara, Thursday, December 16.

Head of the Provincial National Narcotics Agency (BNNP) of the Special Region of Yogyakarta, Brigadier General Andi Fairan, assessed that villages located in urban buffer zones or provincial borders, such as Sleman Regency, could become vulnerable routes for illicit drug trafficking, thus making the village a new business potential for drug dealers.

"This is influenced by the increasing rural economy," he said.

He said that according to the LIPI survey and the Research, Data and Information Center of the Indonesian National Narcotics Agency in 2019, the number of prevalence or those who had used drugs in the DIY Province touched 2.30 percent, equivalent to 18,082 people.

"Assuming DIY's population in 2019 is 3,842,932 people, then DIY is in the fifth largest position in Indonesia after North Sumatra, South Sumatra, DKI Jakarta and Central Sulawesi," he said.

According to him, with these data, if all communities and local governments/village governments get involved and make efforts to prevent and eradicate narcotics abuse and illicit trafficking, it is believed that they will be able to reduce the prevalence rate and create a clean Indonesia from drug abuse and illicit trafficking.

The Shining Village Program is a national priority program that authorizes villages to make policies by mainstreaming prevention and eradication of abuse and illicit trafficking of narcotics and narcotics precursors or known as P4GN.

"Desa Bersinar will become a 'pilot project' in the context of P4GN's efforts. Later, all components of the community and village government are expected to move and be involved in preventing drug abuse and illicit trafficking," he said.