VIDEO: International Maritime Network Narcotics Disclosure (Thailand – Aceh)

The evidence for methamphetamine was secured by the National Narcotics Agency. (Photo: Rizky Sulistio/VOI)

JAKARTA – International network narcotics syndicates often use various channels with less stringent safeguards. It was later discovered that the largest narcotics smuggler used the sea route, up to 80 percent.

"By sea there is a combination. According to the goods entering by sea and goods stored in cars and containers with varying modes," said Head of BNN RI Petrus Reinhard Golose to reporters, Thursday, August 19, yesterday.

The sea route is chosen by narcotics syndicates of methamphetamine or methamphetamine types. In addition to the sea route, the syndicates also often use the air route. The mode is by air (shipping) via parcels originating from Europe, America, South America and Australia.

"(smuggling) through the air through the body or anus," continued Reinhard.

Meanwhile, on the land route, it is on the border between Indonesia and Malaysia. There are also those that combine three routes, namely sea, air and land routes. However, according to Reinhard, during the COVID-19 pandemic, narcotics syndicates tend to smuggle these goods by sea.

"Dealing with this must be holistic and comprehensive. The results of the survey we conducted, the level of narcotics users in the Republic of Indonesia is 3.4 million people," he said.

The potential of the narcotics market in Indonesia is an easy target for narcotics syndicates from abroad. The reason is that narcotics users in Indonesia are still high.

Throughout 2021, the Director General of Customs and Excise P2 noted that he had revealed as many as 212 narcotics smuggling cases with the Indonesian National Narcotics Agency. From that case, hundreds of kilograms of methamphetamine have been confiscated by officers.

Recently, BNN and Customs and Excise arrested 5 international network drug dealers who used sea routes. B alias Y (39), T alias CM (52), ES alias E (26), AN alias WY (44) and AY alias R (52), with evidence of 324.3 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine.

The following is a video of the disclosure of the Thailand-Aceh international drug case: