Maya admits to using drugs

Maya admits to using drugs

JAKARTA (JP): Chief of West Jakarta Police Sr. Supt. Adjie
Rustam Ramdja said on Thursday that Gusti Maya Firandi Noor, a
grand-daughter in law of former president Soeharto, had admitted
to being a drug user.

"During the police's investigation, Maya conceded that she had
been using shabu-shabu (crystal methampetamine) for at least one
year," Adjie said after attending the inauguration of the
National Drug Coordinating Agency (BKNN) in Cawang, East Jakarta.

Adjie, however, refused to elaborate on whether or not the
wife of buinessman Ari Sigit Hardjoyudanto, Soeharto's grandson,
was using the drug at the time she was arrested for "medical
purposes."

Several newspapers have quoted her lawyers as saying that Maya
was under medication when she was arrested in her car on the
evening of June 24.

Humphrey R. Djemat, her lawyer, said Maya was being treated by
doctor Al Bahry Husin from the Wisma Adiksi in Cinere, South
Jakarta.

Adjie said police had rejected the lawyer's request to
temporarily release the suspect.

"For the effectivenes of our investigation, the suspect should
stay here at the police precinct headquarters," he said, adding
that once the investigation had been completed, the suspect would
be sent to the women's Pondok Bambu Penitentiary. (asa)