(26 May 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia – 26 May 2025
1. Suspect – wearing an orange prison uniform, a balaclava and handcuffs – walking escorted by police
2. Suspect on the podium flanked by plainclothes officers
3. Wide shot of news conference, led by Bali Police Chief, Daniel Adityajaya
4. SOUNDBITE (Indonesian) Daniel Adityajaya, Bali Police Chief:
"From the uncovering process, the Bali Narcotics Directorate has seized evidence of a first-category narcotic, cocaine, found in plastic packaging totaling 206 packets with a gross weight of 1816.92 grams or 1,713.92 grams net weight."
5. Various of evidence, cocaine in plastic packaging
6. SOUNDBITE (Indonesian) Daniel Adityajaya, Bali Police Chief:
"Based on the Indonesian Law No. 35 of 2009 concerning narcotics, importing or distributing first-category narcotics is punishable by the death penalty, life imprisonment, or a minimum of 5 years and a maximum of 20 years in prison."
7. Tilt up from Adityajaya to the suspect standing behind, flanked by police
8. Various of Adityajaya showing evidence, cocaine in plastic to reporters
9. Various of suspect being led back to prison by police officers
STORYLINE:
Indonesian authorities arrested an Australian for allegedly smuggling cocaine on the tourist island of Bali, a charge that could carry the death penalty, officials said Monday.
The Southeast Asian country has extremely strict drug laws, and convicted smugglers are sometimes executed by firing squad.
The 43-year-old man from Sydney was arrested May 22, after police raided his rented house near Kuta beach, a popular tourist spot, and seized 1.7 kilograms (3.7 pounds) cocaine in 206 clip plastic bags, along with a digital scale and cellular phone, said Bali Police Chief Daniel Adityajaya.
The arrest followed an investigation conducted by Bali Police anti-drug surveillance teams who reported the man had received two suspicious packages sent by mail from England, Adityajaya said.
“He is suspected of importing or distributing class 1 narcotics,” Adityaja told a news conference in the provincial capital, Denpasar. “He is threatened with the death penalty or life imprisonment.”
Adityajaya said a preliminary investigation showed that the Australian had ordered a motorcycle taxi driver through the Grab online service on May 21, to pick up two packages at a post office in Denpasar.
The driver was told to hand the two packages to a motorcycle taxi driver from another online service, who was ordered to deliver them to the Australian’s rented house, Adityajaya said.
Police on Monday presented the accused at the news conference. He was wearing an orange detainee jumpsuit and a buff mask, with his hands handcuffed.
The man did not make a statement.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime says Indonesia is a major drug-smuggling hub despite having some of the strictest drug laws in the world, in part because international drug syndicates target its young population.
About 530 people, including 96 foreigners, are on death row in Indonesia, mostly for drug-related crimes, the Ministry of Immigration and Corrections’ data showed.
Indonesia’s last executions, of an Indonesian and three foreigners, were carried out in July 2016.
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