Indonesian police patrol maximum security prison Nusa Kambangan in Cilacap, Central Java province, on January 16, 2015 prior to the scheduled execution of drug convicts on January 18. PHOTO: Dida Nuswantara/AFP
A man who had been guarding the prison holding two Australian men executed for drug trafficking, was ironically arrested for drug dealing just weeks after the executions.
Bayu Anggit Permana was caught with over 350 grams of crystal meth—more specifically, 27 packets weighing 13.5 grams each, reports the Jakarta Globe.
Permana was a corrections officer at Nusakambangan prison island in central Java where Bali Nine Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran were held during their last days and executed along with six other men on April 29, 2015.
Permana reportedly told investigators he got the drugs from an inmate named Abdul Rosyid at Batu Penitentiary (one of several prisons on Nusakambangan). And, Cilacap Police Chief Ulung Sampurna Jaya says Permana was caught on his way to Nusakambangan.
“Officers arrested him at Wijayapura Port following a month-long investigation that we launched after receiving a tip,” Ulung said, as quoted by the Globe.
Will he be put to death like the men he watched over at “Death Island”? Doesn’t sound like it.
Police reportedly plan to charge Permana and Rosyid with drug dealing, which carries a sentence of 12 to 20 years, reports say.
