BNN Reveals 2.3 Million Students In Indonesia Have Used Drugs

Illustration/Aceh Police escort 3 out of 6 suspected narcotics traffickers with 61 kilograms of methamphetamine and 1 firearm during release in Banda Aceh, Aceh, January 2021. (ANTARA-Ampelsa)

JAKARTA - The Coordinator for Prevention and Community Empowerment (P2M) of the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) of South Kalimantan Province (Kalsel), Iskandar Adam, revealed that 2.3 million students and students in Indonesia have used drugs.

This figure is based on the latest data from BNN. Iskandar continued, that some of the factors that cause teenagers to become addicts are due to the wrong association in the name of group solidarity, so they try it or want to know.

For this reason, he continued, through a city that is responsive to drug threats (Kotan), which is a policy in order to prevent, eliminate, and mitigate drug abuse, one of the BNN's focuses begins in the educational environment.

"Family resilience and community resilience also play an important role, all of which are interconnected with each other so that the region can provide a sense of security to the community against the dangers of drug abuse," said Iskandar in Banjarmasin, quoted from Antara, Wednesday, August 10.

The South Kalimantan BNN encourages the insertion of knowledge about drugs into subjects as an effort to prevent it from starting school.

"So, education on the dangers of drugs is not only at certain moments but preferably massively through subjects," he added.

As a concrete action, he said, the South Kalimantan BNNP is currently making regulations on the implementation of the Prevention and Eradication of Narcotics Abuse and Illicit Trafficking (P4GN) in educational institutions.

According to Iskandar, the efforts of the educational environment in helping the P4GN program are very important and strategic considering that students are one of the victims of the drug market.