Bareskrim: Drugs From Laboratorys In Bali Marketed With Pods

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JAKARTA - The Directorate of Drug Crimes (Ditipidnarkoba) of the Criminal Investigation Unit of the National Police said that the marketing of narcotics types of hasith from the clinical laboratory in Bali uses a pods system.

"The modus operandi of drug trafficking using the pods system is a strategy used by the perpetrators because they take advantage of popular trends among young people," said Head of Criminal Investigation Unit of the National Police, Komjen Wahyu Widada, Tuesday, November 19.

Widada explained that the pods system is usually used as a tool for vaping, modified into media to smuggle or consume drugs, making it more difficult for authorities to detect.

This mode is considered effective because the pods system has a modern, practical, and often considered as an ordinary item that is not suspicious, thus attracting the attention of the younger generation segment which tends to follow the modern lifestyle.

To disguise the laboratory for the making of hasis and happy five, he said, the perpetrators produced in places that mingled with the community.

The goal is to disguise his actions.

"What's interesting here is that there are fillings, of course, when they are sold, the price is not the same as those sold in ordinary markets because the price is quite expensive, but this is one of the new modes to introduce these drugs to young people, which is now the term is trending using Vape," he said.

Widada remembers that the public should not be careful about what is smoked later are prohibited items.

"This is one of the methods or strategies used by the perpetrators to facilitate marketing," he said.

The Head of the Criminal Investigation Unit of the National Police revealed that the drug factory that was raided at a villa on Jalan Uluwatu, Badung, Bali was able to produce IDR 1.5 trillion in just two months.

Previously, the Directorate of Drug Crimes (Ditipidnarkoba) of the National Police Criminal Investigation Unit raided a narcotics laboratory in a villa in Uluwatu, Badung Regency, Bali, Monday (18/11).

The disclosure of the case is a development of the disclosure of narcotics cases that occurred in Jogjakarta last September. In this case, the police arrested four perpetrators who acted as drug dealers.

From the results of the investigation by the perpetrators, the drugs were boosted to be produced massively to be marketed at the moment of the new year 2026 in the Bali area and Java Island.