Better surveillance at airport<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Custom and excise officials at Soekarno-Hatta
\nInternational Airport will increase surveillance of passengers
\nand baggage in an attempt to stop transport of illegal drugs out
\nof the country, an official said.<\/p>\n
Permana Agung of the Directorate General of Custom and Excise
\nsaid on Wednesday there had been many incidents where illegal
\ndrugs were successfully smuggled through airport security. This
\nis supported in a confession by a suspect arrested Saturday, who
\nsaid she had transported some 30,000 ecstasy pills to Bangkok
\nlast month.<\/p>\n
Mili Wagimin was arrested on charges of trying to smuggle some
\n10,000 ecstasy pills. She was found to have plastic bags
\ncontaining the drugs strapped to her body.<\/p>\n
"We need more intelligence operations to anticipate (smuggling
\ndrugs out of Indonesia)," Permana told a press conference on a
\nsimilar smuggling attempt.<\/p>\n
A man identified as Cheng Ching Lung, 30, with a People's
\nRepublic of China passport, was arrested Monday for possession of
\n4,721 ecstasy pills. They were also in plastic bags, strapped to
\nhis legs. The arrest was made when he was about to board a flight
\nto Taipei.<\/p>\n
At the press conference Ucok Marisi, the airport customs
\nofficer in charge of smuggling interdiction, said most arrests in
\nnarcotic cases in the last two years were based on "profile
\nanalysis" of passengers behaving suspiciously, apart from baggage
\nand body checks.<\/p>\n
Also confiscated at the airport on Wednesday were some 9,500
\nporn VCDs. (07\/41)<\/p>",
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