If the country’s heavy punishments against drug users don’t discourage you from consuming illegal narcotics in Indonesia, then this just might.
The National Narcotics Agency (BNN) and Indonesian Customs recently prevented the smuggling of over 57,000 kilograms of crystal meth from Bandar Lampung harbor in Lampung Province.
BNN said that the meth was meant to be distributed to suppliers throughout some of Indonesia’s major cities. The suppliers would then lace the meth with chemical and/or organic fertilizers (e.g. compost or manure, ew) to increase the drug’s volume and prolong its effect on consumers.
“If [the meth] entered the distribution regions, then the buyers would show up. The buyers would then mix the crystal meth [with other chemicals] and then sell them on,” said Dedi Fauzi Elhakim, deputy of BNN’s Drugs Eradication Department, as quoted by Okezone yesterday.
Other than fertilizers, caffeine and paracetamol were often infused into this particular type of crystal meth. The drug is usually packaged as pills and often sold at nightclubs.
Though they didn’t explain how, the BNN warned that consuming these crystal meth pills laced with harmful chemicals could be fatal.
