JAKARTA - HC (51) the suspect owner of an etomidate factory in one of the apartments in North Jakarta admitted that he had sold his product to special customers.
"So he has distributed some etomidate to special buyers. The suspect sells by meeting directly (buyers)," said Head of Narcotics Investigation, North Jakarta Metro Police, AKBP Ari Galang Saputro, Wednesday, May 6, 2026.
The suspect has received a sales turnover of Rp. 40 million each time he makes a transaction to a special customer.
"The turnover can reach 40 million if from the sales results, every one-time transaction. If per month we still calculate because some of them have not been distributed," he said.
Meanwhile, the evidence of etomidate belonging to the suspect who was confiscated by the North Jakarta Metro Police Satnarkoba was hundreds of units.
"For the total, it's hundreds (vape etomidate). Later we will release more," he said.
The head of the police said that the negative impact of etomidate is very bad for the health of its users. He appealed to the public not to be involved in any kind of narcotics in any form.
"For the impact of the effect, it can make 'fly'," added AKBP Ari Galang.
As previously reported, the North Jakarta Metro Police Narcotics Unit developed a case of a factory or home industry producing etomidate-type narcotics in an apartment in North Jakarta.
From the results of development in two different locations, the police again seized a number of evidence of raw materials and Etomidate cartridges belonging to the suspect with the initials HC (51) who is a Chinese citizen.
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