Drug linked to money laundering
Drug linked to money laundering
JAKARTA: The Indonesian Financial Transaction Report and
Analysis Center (PPATK) head Yunus Husein called on the police
Tuesday to charge drug dealers under anti-money laundering laws.
"Money from drugs trafficking is categorized as money
laundering and Indonesia is among the countries whose financial
system is misused to accommodate such a crime," Yunus told a
seminar on international cooperation in combating drug abuse.
Yunus said Law No. 15/2002 on anti-money laundering allowed
law enforcers to ask alleged drugs traders to prove that their
assets were not the results of drug trafficking.
The law also allows law enforcers to ask banks to disclose
accounts belonging to alleged drug dealers.
He said utilizing the law would provide more advantages than
Law No. 5/1997 on psychotropic drugs.
Yunus said although several articles in the anti-money
laundering law would be amended, some of the articles would
remain in place to enable police to charge alleged drug dealers
under the law. --JP
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Hamzah blames the past for poverty
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Hamzah blames the past for poverty
BOGOR, West Java: Vice President Hamzah Haz said the
government found it difficult to improve people's welfare due to
the poor development policies of the past.
"In the past, education, religion and national identity did
not serve as the pillars of development," Hamzah said at Bogor
palace on Tuesday.
He said it was a challenge to improve people's welfare and
knowledge due to the exorbitantly high school fees.
The vice president noted that in terms of education, Indonesia
ranked 112th in the world due to the increasing number of
children who could afford higher education.
He said Indonesians had almost lost their identity because of
the impact of globalization and the failure to practice religious
teachings.
"Pornography and drug abuse are out of control. What can we
expect from our younger generation?" Hamzah asked.
However, he said the door was still open to solve the national
problem. --Antara
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Indonesian rhino facing extinction
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Indonesian rhino facing extinction
BOGOR, West Java: The Indonesian black rhino was on the brink
of extinction, with numbers throughout the country now below 300,
Rhino Partnership Foundation (YMR) secretary Effendy A Sumardja
warned Tuesday.
The forestry ministry's director general for forest and nature
conservation, Koes Sapardjadi, estimated there were only 200
Sumatran rhinos (Dicerorhinus Sumatrensis) and no more than 60
Javanese rhinos left alive.
He called on all people to help save the rhinos from
vanishing.
Effendy attributed the decline to the rhino's dwindling
natural habitat and rampant illegal poaching.
"The slow breeding of rhinos has also contributed to the drop
in population," he said. -- Antara
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Three demonstrators arrested
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Three demonstrators arrested
JAKARTA: Three people have been named suspects in the theft of
police equipment during a protest outside the People's
Consultative Assembly in Jakarta on Monday.
Jakarta Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Prasetyo said Sudarto, a
student of the University of Indonesia's (UI) school of
mathematics and physics, a driver identified as Abu Bakar, and
Subian, a sound system mechanic, were arrested on Monday after
the rally and were now in police custody.
Prasetyo said the people were charged under article 363 of the
Criminal Code for stealing officer's clubs and article 170 of the
same law for vandalizing the MPR fence.
Defying the security cordon, some 500 people, including
students grouped under the UI Student Executive Board (BEM),
forced their way into the Assembly compound, demanding an end to
the Annual Session on Monday. Police used water canons to
disperse the crowd.
Bull Nationalist Freedom Party (PNBK) chairman Eros Djarot
demanded on Tuesday the release of the suspects on his personal
guarantee, but the police said the decision rested with the
investigators. -- Antara
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Compensation for terror victims
JAKARTA: The government has set up a team to calculate
compensation for victims of last year's Bali bombings,
Coordinating Minister for Political and Security Affairs Susilo
Bambang Yudhoyono said on Tuesday.
"In line with Antiterrorism Law No. 15/2003, victims of terror
attacks deserve compensation from the government. We are asking a
team to calculate funds the government has to provide," he said
chairing a meeting on political and security affairs.
The team will be supervised by the Ministry of Justice and
Human Rights. Also in the team are the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, the Ministry of Social Affairs, the Ministry of Finance
and the Attorney General's Office.
No less than 202 people, mostly foreigners, were killed and
hundreds of others injured when bombs ripped through Paddy's Bar
and the Sari Club in Kuta on Bali island last October.
Susilo, nevertheless, did not say whether victims of other
terror attacks in the country would also be paid compensation. --
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