Model tried for using drug

Model tried for using drug

JAKARTA (JP): A female model was indicted at the Central
Jakarta District Court on Friday for consuming and possessing 0.4
grams of shabu-shabu, a amphetamine derivative.

Prosecutor Suleman Hadjarati said the 20-year-old defendant,
Fairus Salim, was arrested in a room of Puri Mega Hotel in
Central Jakarta on March 3.

"Police officers found the shabu-shabu in her cellular phone
cover when she was being searched," Suleman said.

The officers, who raided the hotel at about 2:30 p.m., also
found a syringe used to inject the drug, he said.

During the interrogation, the defendant admitted to buying the
drug from a woman named Tia at Menteng Hotel in Central Jakarta
for Rp 100,000 (US$12.50).

Suleman charged the junior high school graduate under Article
62 of Law No. 5/1977 on psychotropic drugs, which carries a
maximum punishment of three years in jail and a maximum fine of
Rp 60 million.

The defendant, a resident of Jl. Cilunguk, Duren Sawit, East
Jakarta, told the court that she was arrested with 15 friends in
the room.

"I just consumed the shabu-shabu. It belonged to my friends,"
Fairus said without any apparent guilt or remorse.

The defendant, who was accompanied by her parents during the
trial, did not know why her friends were released after being
questioned.

The defendant is being detained at Pondok Bambu Penitentiary.

Presiding judge Rusdi As'ad asked her parents to keep an eye
on their daughter in the future, telling them to keep Fairus away
from bad influences.

Rusdi adjourned the trial until next week to hear testimonies
from witnesses.

While being ferried back to the penitentiary in a detainee
car, Fairus was busy with her mobile phone. (jun)