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Greater-antidrug-campaign
Anti-drug campaign leads to new law
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Antidrug campaign
leads to new law

JAKARTA: The Jakarta Library and Yayasan Cahaya Hati Bangsa
will hold a panel discussion on Dec. 8, and their conclusions
will be submitted to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono as a
revision draft of the existing antidrug laws, both issued in
1997.

Many people say that the laws on psychotropic substances and
drug abuse fail to address how to rehabilitate the users and
merely call for incarceration of such people, which often worsens
their condition.

The discussion will be held at the Jakarta Library's Nyi Ageng
Serang building on Jl. HR Rasuna Said Kav. 22 C in Kuningan.

The panelists will include the National Narcotics Body chief
Makbul Padmanegara, lawyer-cum-activist Henry Yosodiningrat,
artist Titi Qadarsih and her musician son Indra, who beat drug
addiction, and psychologist Kasandra Vati.

Representatives from several media groups have been appointed
to wrap up the discussion. -- JP