Big catch: Indonesia seizes 87kg crystal meth from international network, the Malaysia-Madura connection


JAKARTA, March 25 (Xinhua): Indonesia has seized 87.47 kg of crystal methamphetamine, 400.18 kg of dried marijuana and 35,915 pills of ecstasy from a drug syndicate from Malaysia and Madura (in East Java province), a narcotics agency said.

As many as 14 suspects with the contrabands were arrested in six different locations by a joint team between the Indonesian National Narcotics Agency and the Finance Ministry's Directorate General of Excise and Duty, the agency's Head Commissioner General Petrus Reinhard Golose told a press conference here Thursday (March 25).

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