TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – The Indonesian National Police’s Criminal Investigation Department (Bareskrim) dismantled a hashish production network operating out of a villa in Jimbaran, Bali.
The Bareskrim Chief Wahyu Widada announced that the police seized evidence worth approximately Rp1.5 trillion. “This is the first disclosure of a hashish laboratory in Indonesia,” Wahyu said in a written statement released on Tuesday, November 19, 2024.
He explained that confiscated evidence includes 18 kilograms of silver-packaged hashish, 12.9 kilograms of gold-packaged hashish, and 35,000 Happy Five pills. Additionally, police seized raw materials sufficient to produce over 2 million pills and thousands of hashish sticks. Wahyu noted that the raw materials were primarily sourced from overseas.
The network, he went on, used pods commonly used for vaping to package liquid hashish into cartridges. “This modus operandi targets younger generations by leveraging current technological trends,” Wahyu explained.
Wahyu said the mastermind behind the operation, an Indonesian citizen identified only by the initials DOM, is currently a fugitive. However, the police have apprehended four suspects, MR, RR, N, and DA, who were involved in mixing and packaging the narcotics.
The police charged the suspects with Article 114 paragraph (2) and Article 112 paragraph (2) in conjunction with Article 132 paragraph (2) of Law Number 35 of 2009 concerning Narcotics, as well as Article 59 paragraph (2) of Law Number 5 of 1997 concerning Psychotropics. These charges carry a maximum penalty of death, life imprisonment, or 20 years’ imprisonment, along with a fine of up to Rp10 billion.
