BNN Confiscates IDR 187.5 Billion Money From 2021-2023

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BADUNG - The National Narcotics Agency (BNN) confiscated money from the narcotics money laundering crime (TPPU) of around Rp. 187.5 billion from 2021 to mid-2023.

"The Indonesian National Narcotics Agency handles the crime of money laundering (TPPU) from 2021 to June 2023 with a total of 39 cases, 44 suspects and the total value of assets confiscated was Rp. 187,523,827,849," said BNN Chairman Komjen Petrus Reinhard Golose at the peak commemoration of the 2023 International Anti-Narcotic Day at the Garuda Wisnu Kencana Cultural Park, Badung, Bali, reported by ANTARA, Monday, June 26.

Golose said the hundreds of billions confiscated by BNN were part of a hard power approach strategy through strict and measurable law enforcement in dealing with narcotics network syndicates.

In addition, the results of law enforcement on narcotics crimes during the period from 2021 to June 2023 were in the form of 6.04 tons of methamphetamine, 6.67 tons of marijuana, 131.4 hectares of marijuana, 294.6 tons of wet marijuana, and 464,900 ecstasy pills.

In addition to the hard power approach strategy, said Golose, BNN is the leading institution for the handling of narcotics problems with a comprehensive strategy approach, including soft power approach, smart power approach and collaboration.

"Soft power approach is a preventive activity to increase the community's silting and resilience to the dangers of narcotics through the dissemination of information, education, advocacy and community empowerment activities," he said.

This approach also includes increased accessibility and acceptability of the implementation of rehabilitation services for drug abusers for the recovery from addiction.

The implementation of this strategy is carried out through various activity programs, including a shining village program (drug cleaning) in 414 villages/kelurahan, a shining school at 1,740 schools, a shining campus at 340 universities, and a shining prison at 175 correctional institutions, anti-narcotic family resilience 1,040 families.

Furthermore, Muri's record-breaking sang the BNN mars song titled An anti-narcotics gene simultaneously through a hybrid by 3.6 million people,

The smash on Drugs International Table Tennis Championship 2023 was attended by 13 countries with a total of 239 athletes, Shooting Against Drugs followed by echelon I and II officials from the National Police, ASN in the BNN environment and Bali Province Perbakin athletes, Sing Against Drugs on July 25-29, 2023, Running Against Drugs on July 30, 2023.

Meanwhile, the number of drug-response regions as many as 150 regencies/cities consists of 21 very responsive categories and 129 response-category areas.

Furthermore, in order to improve the economy, the community is carried out by programal alternative development in areas prone to drug abuse and illicit trafficking with the transfer of skills and land conversion that has been implemented in 76 areas.

In the field of rehabilitation, in order to improve service acceptability, a technical competency improvement program has been carried out for 1,100 people and certification for 285 addiction counselors and training 1,190 recovery agent officers.

For the implementation of community-based intervention services, 299 community-based rehabilitation units have been formed spread across 34 provinces and 173 regencies/cities to support increased service accessibility.

As for the strategic smart power approach, namely by utilizing information technology in the digital era to the maximum in efforts to control narcotics through the use of electronic investigation (e-mindik) version 2.0 which is integrated into all levels of the Indonesian National Narcotics Agency and related ministries/agencies.

In addition, digitization of community-based interventions, acceleration of the administration of BNN RI using digital signatures, increasing the ability of the BNN RI narcotics laboratory in early detection of the new type of NPS (new psychoactive distances) and processing drug signatures.

"BNN RI also carries out a cooperation approach strategy in dealing with the threat of drug hazards that we understand together as trans-national organized crime, which can damage the future of the younger generation as the basic capital for development so that cooperation, coordination and collaboration both nationally, regionally and internationally are needed," said Golose.