Indonesian police: Drug smuggling increasing on Malaysian border


  • Nation
  • Friday, 03 Feb 2017

Central Kalimantan police anti-drug director Sr Comr Ignatius Agung Prasetyoko (second from left), speaks to the press on the drug trade on Borneo island. - The Jakarta Post/ANN

PONTIANAK, INDONESIA: West Kalimantan police recorded an increase in drug cases in the area bordering Indonesia and Malaysia on the island of Borneo.

It said that the number of cases had increased from 375 cases in 2015 to 531 in 2016.

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