Ecstasy dealer gets four years

JAKARTA (JP): The North Jakarta District Court sentenced a man on Tuesday to four years in jail and fined him Rp 150 million ($15,000) or three months imprisonment for possessing 13 Ecstasy pills.

Presiding judge Azynar Abbas said in his verdict that Endang Suryana had been caught red-handed with the Ecstasy tablets in a raid on Cleopatra discotheque in Sunter on Oct. 28 last year.

Azynar said Endang was arrested shortly after he sold three Ecstasy tablets for Rp 40,000 each to discotheque patrons, Antara reported.

Endang, who said he would need several days before deciding whether to appeal the verdict, received Rp 5,000 in commission from his drug agent, the judge said. (pan)