See if the harsher punishments can keep these drug dealers from selling, apparently, the progresses are still YET to be seen! From the Front Page Sections, translated…
Last Year, the Taiwanese & Indonesian Police Busted the Indonesian History’s Largest Amphetamine Smuggling Case, Eight Taiwanese Suspects Were Caught in Indonesia, and the Indonesian D.A.’s Offices Asked the Judge for the Death Penalty for Them All; the Detective Agency Here Stated, that Indonesian Law Punishes Drug Dealers Very Severely, the Eight Citizens Facing the Trials in Indonesia, there’s Very Little Chance They Will Escape the Death Penalty There.
The police estimated, that there are 873 Taiwanese citizens who’d dealt drugs who were caught abroad, and twenty five of them were already serving life, twenty-one given the death penalty. There were, 95 Taiwanese who’d dealt drugs who were caught in Indonesia, eleven were given the death penalty, adding the eight more who were given the death penalties, there are now, a total of NINETEEN. And, there were eight more mules who were given the death penalty for transporting drugs, and two others in Laos who’d received the DEATH penalty for drug related charges too.
The Detective Agency pointed out, that Taiwan is humanitarian, and the heaviest sentence given to someone who sold level two substance such as amphetamine is life in prison, but unless there’s, imminent harm, or the people were caught dealing the substance, rarely, this heavy a sentence had been, given; most people here believed, that it’s the same way in other countries as well, until they were given the death penalties, and, they’d, regretted doing what they’d done.
The Criminal Investigative Unit told, that in recent years, the Philippines, Indonesia are sweeping out the illegal substances forcefully, not only were the dealers given harsh sentences, many had even gotten put to death; transporting just two kilos of amphetamine in Indonesia can get the DEATH penalty, in this past year, the Indonesia police had already, GUNNED down and killed FIVE Taiwanese dealers.
The Indonesian police and our country worked together, found that there was, around a TON’s worth of smuggled amphetamine from China, transported into Indonesia, multiple people from Taiwan involved were already arrested, and one of them was SHOT DEAD in the police arrests.
The Southern District Court in Jakarta opened trial on this case two days ago, the D.A. accused the eight Taiwanese suspects for distributing, and selling amphetamine, and asked for the DEATH penalty for them all.
Of the suspects, three had been identified, the thirty-five-year-old Hsu, the twenty-one-year-old Liao, and Chen, who’s also twenty-one. Three were accused of receiving a TON of amphetamine in Anyer Beach, the other five suspects were caught, while transporting the substances received in open waters then transporting it into Indonesia.
In a study a year ago, Indonesian government estimated, that there were 6.4 million drug users locally, that there are 33 who’d died of drug abuse per day; the Detective Agency said, that amphetamine sold at a very high price all around the world, in Australia, Japan, Korea, and Indonesia and other countries, the substances sold ten times or more, higher than here, and therefore, a lot of people were, willing to risk their lives for it.
And, the effectiveness of this drug bust program by the government of Indonesia is still YET to be seen, because for the time being, those DRUG mules got put to death, and, the government of Indonesia was probably hoping, that having this harsh a punishment might be able to deter the dealers from selling, but, what it worlds down to is still simple supply and demand, as long as there’s a demand for the illegal substances, and money to be made from selling, there will always be those, willing to risk their lives for it.
Life, the Obstacle Course 