Jayapura, Papua (ANTARA) – The fast response workforce of the Indonesian Navy in Papua on Thursday foiled the try of six drug traffickers to smuggle 13.43 kg of dried marijuana from Papua New Guinea (PNG) into the province, a navy official stated.
The success of the navy in eradicating the cross-border smuggling try was highlighted by the Operations Assistant for the Fundamental Naval Base of the Navy (Lantamal) X Command Colonel Yustus Nasarius Rossi.
The drug trafficking operation was thwarted by the fast response personnel of the naval base throughout their routine patrol within the Indonesia-PNG maritime border, he remarked on Thursday in Jayapura, the capital of Papua Province.
Through the maritime patrol, they detected a suspicious longboat that was going from the waters of Tanjung Jar to Hamadi in Jayapura Selatan Sub-district, Papua, on Thursday morning, he revealed.
They then chased the longboat and intercepted it at about 1:38 am native time to test the individuals on board and the products they have been carrying. Nevertheless, they didn’t discover any firearms, medication, or another prohibited gadgets.
Consequently, the fast response personnel of the Lantamal X allowed the captain of the longboat to proceed crusing to Hamadi whereas persevering with his visible surveillance across the waters, Rossi stated.
Shortly after, navy officers noticed a suspicious plastic bag within the water and located a number of packages of marijuana in it, he revealed.
They tried to chase the longboat however couldn’t discover it, he stated, including that the seized package deal of marijuana had been handed over to the Jayapura Metropolis Police for additional investigation.
The Indonesia-PNG border stays susceptible to cross-border prison actions, together with marijuana trafficking.
Within the early morning hours of Thursday, March 21, 2024, Papuan cops arrested two PNG nationals for allegedly smuggling 51 packets of marijuana from their nation in Papua.
They have been arrested round 2:15 am native time in Hamadi Hanurata neighborhood, Jaya Selatan Sub-district, Jayapura Metropolis.
The suspects, recognized as Junior Lenga and Rindox, have been carrying 51 packages of marijuana that they’d hidden in 4 baggage of rice.
Police investigators discovered that Junior Lenga was on the precedence watch record of the Jayapura Metropolis Police as he had escaped from the Abepura Penitentiary when he was incarcerated in reference to a drug smuggling case.
On March 22, 2021, police in Papua additionally arrested a PNG citizen for allegedly being concerned in a cross-border drug trafficking ring.
Police personnel seized 5 baggage of marijuana from the detainee, recognized as Gaddafi Kuentaw Waropo,
He was arrested in Many Island of Jayapura Selatan Sub-district, Jayapura Metropolis, after the arrest of Beny Toway Waropo, 28 years outdated.
To fight cross-border drug-trafficking operations, PNG Police in West Sepik Province have sought collaboration with Indonesian police in Papua.
A complete of 110 PNG nationals have been convicted in reference to drug instances at Doyo Penitentiary in Jayapura District.
Nationwide and transnational drug sellers think about Indonesia to be a possible market attributable to its giant inhabitants and in depth drug use.
The worth of the drug commerce within the nation is projected to have reached virtually 66 trillion Rp (about 4.2 billion $), with the variety of drug trafficking instances persevering with to develop.
A joint survey performed by BNN and the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) in 2019 put the variety of drug customers in Indonesia at greater than 3.4 million.
