DEA examines seized drug labs

DEA examines seized drug labs

JAKARTA: Officers from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)
examined on Friday clandestine drug laboratories in Cipondoh,
Tangerang. The laboratories were seized by the Indonesian Police
this month following the arrest of Ang Kiem Soei alias Tommy
Wijaya, owner of the laboratories which manufacture ecstasy pills
in the thousands.

DEA is working with the police to fight narcotics and
psychotropic substances supply, trafficking and distribution.

The National Narcotics Body (BNN), assisted by the police
detectives, had earlier seized around 8,400 ecstasy pills from
Ang Kiem's first laboratory, which had a production capacity of
150,000 pills per day, along with other illicit chemicals used in
the production.

"These pills are in extremely high demand in the capital," BNN
Chief Comr. Nurfaizi told reporters earlier.

Ang Kiem, alias Anche Tahir alias Kim Ho alias Tommy Wijaya,
has been pursued by narcotics detectives since 1998 and holds a
Dutch passport and an Indonesian identity card reportedly issued
in Irian Jaya. -- JP