The “drug emergency” in Indonesia, which authorities say kills around 40-50 people every day (even though they have no scientific evidence to back up that claim), have been used to justify the country’s renewed use of the death penalty for drug dealers
Well according to Budi Waseso, the head of the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) and the country’s premier advocate of crocodile-guarded prisons, the drug crisis is getting even worse, with drug dealers, have reached new depths of depravity, going so far as to target kindergarteners in their attempt to destroy the nation’s youth.
“Drugs have come to kindergarten children. They’ve become victims, as [drug dealers] mix the drug into their food and drinks. That is because their goal is to turn them into their future market. That is why drugs are a threat tp the state and to the the nation’s children,” Budi said to a gathering of 400 drug enforcement officers in Central Java yesterday as quoted by Kompas.
Budi did not give any specific examples of drug dealers slipping their narcotics into the food and drink of kindergarteners, but we’re sure if he says it it must be true.
However, we do question the logic of the drug dealers. Presumably, kindergarteners do not have any money to pay for drugs. So the idea of drug dealers constantly slipping their valuable narcotics into kids’ food in order to get them hooked so that they will eventually buy drugs from them several years in the future when they have money, does seems like a rather long term investment for a drug dealer…
Budi did at least mention that part of the reason for the country’s drug situation is that there are many officials within the government who have been caught helping to distribute narcotics. He acknowledged that it is a problem that his agency has to tackle (even though his agency recently reported an activist to the police for defamation for publishing information about that very problem).
