10,000 Ecstasy pills seized

10,000 Ecstasy pills seized

MEDAN, North Sumatra: Customs officers at the Polonia airport
here seized 10,000 Ecstasy pills allegedly belonging to a Dutch
national aboard Garuda Indonesia GA-987 which arrived from
Amsterdam Monday.

Head of the Customs and Excise office Djoko Oembaran told
Antara that his office only announced the attempted smuggling
yesterday, because his office had to check with the laboratory
first to make sure they were forbidden drugs.

The contraband, stamped with "JP" initials, was seized after
airport customs officers detected them by X-ray. The drugs were
neatly packed inside a dark-green bag on the Boeing-747 plane
which arrived here at 10.30 a.m. with 157 passengers.

Ecstasy pills have been popular among youth in big cities in
Indonesia in the past few years, inviting many to risk "doing
business" with the drugs. (aan)