No Bags Of Health Certificates, Quarantine Center Fails To Smuggle 163 Kg Of Chicken Sausage To NTT

The quarantine petgas checked a number of boxes containing chicken sausages that were about to be smuggled into NTT through PLBN Mota Ain in Atambua, Belu Regency. BETWEEN ANTARA/Ho-Balai NTT Quarantine

KUPANG - Cross-Border Post Service Unit (PLBN) Mota Ain, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) Quarantine Center, thwarted an attempt to smuggle 163 kilograms of chicken sausage from Timor Leste that entered NTT through the PLBN. Head of the NTT Animal, Fish and Plant Quarantine Center, Ida Bagus Putu Raka Ariana, said that a number of chicken sausages were not equipped with health certificates. "When entering through PLBN, it was not accompanied by a health certificate from the country of origin, namely RDTL, so it was later detained and thwarted," he told reporters from Atambua, Antara, Monday, February 12. He added that the attempt to thwart the entry of a number of chicken sausages was due to the neat cooperation between the Animal, Fish and NTT Quarantine Center and Atambua Customs and Excise. Ariana said that the information about the entry of chicken sausage without official documents immediately came from the Atambua Customs and Excise, so his party immediately moved. "We received a report from a colleague from Customs and Excise that there were indications of smuggling illegal animal products in one of the trucks, after we carried out a correct examination of the presence of chicken sausages in the truck's cargo tub which were covered using tarpaulins and plywood," he said. According to him, according to Law Number 21 of 2019, Article 44 Paragraph 2, detention is carried out if after an administrative examination and the suitability of the documents has not been fully fulfilled and/or the owner guarantees that he can fulfill the required documents.

In this case, the owner cannot fulfill the required documents in question so that the owner is willing to be detained in accordance with applicable regulations. He added that in order to prevent the entry of animal diseases, the supervision of media traffic carrying HPHK must be tightened. Not only at the State Border, supervision is also carried out at airports, seaports and ferry ports throughout NTT.