Dutchman gets 6 years for drugs

Dutchman gets 6 years for drugs

JAKARTA: The West Jakarta District Court sentenced on Thursday a Dutch national identified as Laurens Hendrikus to six years in jail for drug possession and trafficking and ordered him to pay a Rp 75 million (US$7,500) fine or spend another three months in jail.

Presiding judge M. Saleh said Hendrikus, 62, was found guilty of carrying 14 grams of psychotropic drugs to Hotel Ibis in West Jakarta last April.

The defendant confessed that he also had 997 grams of psychotropic drugs and 891 grams of shabu shabu (crystal methampethamine) in his residence on Jl. Margasatwa Raya, Cilandak, South Jakarta.

He said the owner of the contraband was an acquaintance, Arif, who is also a Dutch national. "I was only entrusted to keep and sell it," he said.

Earlier, prosecutor R Sitanggang demanded that the defendant be sentenced to eight years in jail and fined Rp 150 million.-- Antara