Bareskrim Polri Unloads Ecstasy Factory In Medan

Director of Narcotics Crime at Bareskrim Polri Brigadier General Mukti Juharsa (central) gave a statement in Medan, North Sumatra, Thursday (13/6/2024). (ANTARA/M. Sahbainy Nasution)

The Directorate of Drug Crimes (Dittipidnarkoba) of the National Police Criminal Investigation Unit together with the North Sumatra Regional Police revealed a factory for making ecstasy pills at a shop house (Ruko), Medan, North Sumatra.

"Evidence confiscated included ecstasy printing equipment, 8.96 kilograms of solid chemicals, 218.5 liters of liquid chemicals, 532.92 grams of ecstasy powdered with 635 pills, various types of precursor chemicals and laboratory equipment," said the Director of Narcotics Crime at Bareskrim Polri Brigadier General Mukti Juharsa in Medan as reported by ANTARA, Thursday, June 13.

Mukti explained that the suspect, namely a man with the initials HK as the maker and owner of the factory, SS alias D as an order for printing tools and orders, AP courier for the taker of ecstasy packages, a woman with the initials DK assisting in making ecstasy in the laboratory, HD for ordering ecstasy and S as a witness for the purchase of ecstasy which was just arrested (11/6).

"We are still looking for the list of people with the initials R and B," said Mukti.

From the results of the interrogation of the suspect, the manufacture of ecstasy has been operating for 6 months in Medan which is marketed in discotheques in North Sumatra such as Siantar City.

In 1 month the suspect can produce 600 ecstasy pills per month from raw materials from China through the marketplace.

"So the manufacture of ecstasy has changed from mdma kemephedrone, so we have revealed this in Sunter, Jakarta and the factory in Bali," he said.

North Sumatra Deputy Police Chief Brigadier General Rony Samtana said the modus operandi carried out by the perpetrators was a laboratory on the 3rd floor.

Ronny said the ecstasy content uses mepededhrrome which gets raw materials from the marketplace. "The marketing target in North Sumatra is like Siantar and we continue to develop this case," said Rony.

The suspects were charged with Article 114 paragraph (2) subsidiary Article 113 paragraph (2) subsidiary Article 112 paragraph (2) and Article 111 paragraph (1) Article 132 paragraph 2 of Law of the Republic of Indonesia No. 35 of 2009 concerning Narcotics.