Police seize 5,000 ecstasy pills
Mon, 11/09/2009 2:43 PM | The Jakarta Post I Bali
DENPASAR: Police seized a shipment of 5,000 ecstasy pills with a street value of around Rp 1 billion, a senior officer said at the weekend.
“The ecstasy pills were sent through an expedition company in Jakarta. They were placed in several cardboard packages along with packets of biscuits, apparently in an attempt to disguise the shipment,” said Bali Police spokesperson Sr. Comr. Gde Sugianyar.
The packages aroused the police’s suspicion when they went through the X-ray machine upon arrival at Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport. The officers took the packages, inspected their contents and sent the suspicious looking pills to the police lab. Laboratory tests confirmed the pills were ecstasy.
“Unfortunately, we have yet to arrest the sender or recipient of the packages as the names and addresses written on the packages are fake,” he said. –JP
Wed, 11/04/2009 2:24 PM The Jakarta Post | Bali
DENPASAR: Hundreds of students, members of NGOs, artists, religious leaders and politicians have expressed support for the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) in fighting graft in Indonesia.
Dozens of Udayana University students performed a theatrical protest in front of the Bali Police headquarters in downtown Denpasar on Tuesday afternoon.
The students released seven mice near the headquarters’ gate. A student said each mouse symbolized a corrupt official.
“The criminalization of KPK has freed many corruptors,” Agus Lenyot said.
Separately, numerous religious leaders, journalists, artists, politicians and NGOs persons, were planning to make a strong statement regarding the country’s poor legal system.
Indonesian Hindu Body leader Ngurah Sudiana said the KPK deserved full support from all Indonesians.
Wayan Dibia, professor at the Indonesian Arts Institute in Denpasar, said the conflict between the KPK and the police was “funny”.
“It is like watching bondres *a traditional Balinese comedy*.” – JP
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