Customs Confiscate 170 Kg Of Cannabis From Aceh From Online Sales

Illustration - Joint officers when destroying marijuana fields in the Aceh Besar area, Wednesday (6/3/2024) (ANTARA/Rahmat Fajri)

The Directorate General of Customs and Excise (DJBC) has secured 170 kilograms of marijuana originating from Aceh through online sales in the last two months.

"For this year alone, in the past two months we have managed to catch 170 kg of marijuana from Aceh," said Director of Narcotics Interdiction DJBC, Syarif Hidayat, in Banda Aceh, as reported by ANTARA, Thursday, March 7.

Syarif said that the marijuana from Aceh that was secured was mostly found through online sales to various regions in Indonesia.

In the last two months, his party has found as many as 70 cases of online narcotics trafficking. Especially those from Aceh.

"We did intercept, both at the sender or recipient in Java, Sumatra, as well as in Eastern Indonesia as well," he said.

All narcotics information known to Customs and Excise is then all data is given to BNN and other law enforcement officers so that it can be followed up.

"We also send the data (the findings of narcotics sales) to law enforcement colleagues for further processing," he said.