Drug trafficker gets 18 years

BOGOR: A man was sentenced to 18 years in jail and fined Rp 1 million on Monday by the Bogor District Court for marijuana trafficking.

Ady Junaedi bin M. Ali, 32, was arrested by police on Aug. 27 at about 1:30 p.m. as he was about to hand over five kilograms of marijuana to a man identified as Zaldi in a telephone kiosk in the Indraprasta housing complex in North Bogor.

Zaldi was able to escape officers.

The sentence handed down by presiding judge Russedar, who was accompanied by judges Binsar Gultom and Endah Pertiwi, was two years less than the sentence being sought by prosecutor Laode. --JP