Indonesia says convict organised major drug trafficking ring

Indonesian narcotics police display seized ecstasy pills during a press conference in Jakarta on August 1, 2017, after a joint operation led by the police, national narchotics agency and customs raided a warehouse on the outskirts of Jakarta on July 21. Indonesian authorities shot dead an alleged drug trafficker and arrested two more for attempting to smuggle more than a million pills of ecstasy from the Netherlands, police said on August 2. / AFP PHOTO

JAKARTA: A convict in a maximum-security Indonesian prison masterminded an operation to import 1.2 million ecstasy tablets which led to two arrests and the death of another suspect, authorities said Tuesday.

They told a press conference the arrested pair could face the death penalty if convicted of importing the drugs from the Netherlands.