Teenagers boil sanitary pads to get high

Children play on a pile of garbage in Jakarta. (The Jakarta Post/P.J. Leo)

JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/Asia News Network): As bizarre as it sounds, young Indonesians have found another affordable way to get tipsy — boiling sanitary pads and drinking the water.

Police in Jakarta; Bekasi, West Java; and Kudus, Central Java, have arrested several teenagers caught while experimenting with unusual methods of getting intoxicated. Most used menstrual pads to make the formula.