(24 Jun 2025)
RESTRICTIONS SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jakarta, Indonesia – 23 June 2025
1. Wide of piles of confiscated drugs, with officials in the background
2. Tilt down of Customs Narcotics team holding weapon
3. SOUNDBITE (Indonesian) Budi Wibowo, Deputy Chief of Indonesia’s National Narcotic Agency:
"Cases during the period from April to June 2025 – a total of 172 cases successfully uncovered and the number of suspects arrested totaling 285 suspects, consisting of 256 men and 29 women."
4. Tilt up handcuffed female suspects
5. Various of narcotics evidence on table
6. SOUNDBITE (Indonesian) Budi Wibowo, Deputy Chief of Indonesia’s National Narcotic Agency:
"The total weight of confiscated narcotics is 623,885.79 grams, with an estimated value of the recovered evidence amounting to 26.175 billion rupiah ($1,745,000 U.S.)."
7. Various of officials holding narcotics evidence
STORYLINE:
Indonesian authorities said on Monday they arrested 285 people suspected of drug trafficking, and seized over half a ton of various narcotics during a two-month crackdown.
Deputy Chief of Indonesia’s National Narcotic Agency, Budi Wibowo, said in Jakarta that the suspects were mostly men, but included 29 women and seven foreign nationals.
Indonesia is a major hub for drug trafficking in Southeast Asia, despite having strict drug laws, with convicted smugglers sometimes executed by firing squad.
Officials said the crackdown, launched between April and June across 20 provinces, also uncovered money laundering schemes by two drug syndicates and confiscated assets worth more than 26 billion rupiah (about 1.5 million US dollars).
Thirty-six of the suspects, including 21 women, were paraded in front of reporters, along with confiscated drugs, in their orange prison uniforms and handcuffs.
The seven foreign nationals arrested were an American, two Kazakhs, two Malaysians, an Indian and an Australian, officials said.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime says Indonesia is a major drug-smuggling hub in part because international drug syndicates target its young population.
Early this month, three British nationals accused of smuggling nearly a kilogram (over two pounds) of cocaine into Indonesia were charged in a court on the tourist island of Bali.
They face the death penalty under the country’s strict drug laws.
AP video by Andi Jatmiko
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