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Indonesian navy seizes boat with one-tonne of crystal meth in waters off Batam
The Indonesian navy earlier this week captured a fishing boat smuggling one tonne of crystal methamphetamine in rice sacks, off the waters of Batam island. The smugglers, using the boat MV Sunrise Glory, was first spotted by navy patrol KRI Sigurot 864 on Wednesday (Feb 7) afternoon as it entered Indonesian waters from the Singapore Strait. It was stopped and boarded by navy personnel for inspection in the Phillip Channel near islands off Batam.
Deputy Navy Chief, Vice Admiral Achmad will be fielding questions about the bust later on Saturday together with officials from the police and National Narcotics Agency (BNN), said a spokesman.
While the Sunrise Glory was flying a Singapore flag at the time, its crew was only able to produce photo-copied registration documents purportedly from Indonesia and there were also signs that it had used the name Sun De Man 66.
The Straits Times understands that the crew of four Taiwanese is suspected of operating the boat under various false flags for illegal fishing or smuggling.
Navy personnel later found the drugs onboard the fishing boat during further examination at Batu Ampar Port in Batam and detained the crew for investigation.
The case comes after Indonesian police and customs officers intercepted a 66-kg shipment of the same type of drugs, better known by its street name crystal meth, shabu-shabu or Ice, just last month.
Riau Islands police chief, Inspector-General Didid Widiadi said then that drugs were being shipped from Singapore to Batam by sea, and would later be flown to Jakarta by air.
Two men who turned up to pick up the shipment in Jakarta, were arrested on Jan 24 in connection with the case.
Indonesia has struggled to contain the drug problem, with officials estimating that there are at least 1.2 million drug abusers in the country with a population of more than 250 million.
Indonesia's numbers are just under half of Thailand's, which has about 2.7 million addicts out of a population of some 68 million.
Ecstasy, heroin, marijuana and methamphetamine, better known as crystal meth, are the drugs of choice for substance abusers in Indonesia, similar to the trend in many other countries in the region.
On July 13, a suspected drug trafficker from Taiwan was shot dead by Indonesian police as he tried to escape.
Lin Ming Hui was one of four Taiwanese men found in Banten, a city near the capital Jakarta, with one tonne of crystal meth, a record bust at the time.
Indonesia has some of the world's toughest drug laws, and remains one of 33 countries that still use capital punishment for drug-related offences.
http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se...one-tonne-of-crystal-meth-in-waters-off-batam
The Indonesian navy earlier this week captured a fishing boat smuggling one tonne of crystal methamphetamine in rice sacks, off the waters of Batam island. The smugglers, using the boat MV Sunrise Glory, was first spotted by navy patrol KRI Sigurot 864 on Wednesday (Feb 7) afternoon as it entered Indonesian waters from the Singapore Strait. It was stopped and boarded by navy personnel for inspection in the Phillip Channel near islands off Batam.
Deputy Navy Chief, Vice Admiral Achmad will be fielding questions about the bust later on Saturday together with officials from the police and National Narcotics Agency (BNN), said a spokesman.
While the Sunrise Glory was flying a Singapore flag at the time, its crew was only able to produce photo-copied registration documents purportedly from Indonesia and there were also signs that it had used the name Sun De Man 66.
The Straits Times understands that the crew of four Taiwanese is suspected of operating the boat under various false flags for illegal fishing or smuggling.
Navy personnel later found the drugs onboard the fishing boat during further examination at Batu Ampar Port in Batam and detained the crew for investigation.
The case comes after Indonesian police and customs officers intercepted a 66-kg shipment of the same type of drugs, better known by its street name crystal meth, shabu-shabu or Ice, just last month.
Riau Islands police chief, Inspector-General Didid Widiadi said then that drugs were being shipped from Singapore to Batam by sea, and would later be flown to Jakarta by air.
Two men who turned up to pick up the shipment in Jakarta, were arrested on Jan 24 in connection with the case.
Indonesia has struggled to contain the drug problem, with officials estimating that there are at least 1.2 million drug abusers in the country with a population of more than 250 million.
Indonesia's numbers are just under half of Thailand's, which has about 2.7 million addicts out of a population of some 68 million.
Ecstasy, heroin, marijuana and methamphetamine, better known as crystal meth, are the drugs of choice for substance abusers in Indonesia, similar to the trend in many other countries in the region.
On July 13, a suspected drug trafficker from Taiwan was shot dead by Indonesian police as he tried to escape.
Lin Ming Hui was one of four Taiwanese men found in Banten, a city near the capital Jakarta, with one tonne of crystal meth, a record bust at the time.
Indonesia has some of the world's toughest drug laws, and remains one of 33 countries that still use capital punishment for drug-related offences.
http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se...one-tonne-of-crystal-meth-in-waters-off-batam
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