Mother, kids, friends caught in drug orgy

Mother, kids, friends caught in drug orgy

JAKARTA (JP): A woman, her two adolescent children and two
friends were arrested during a drug orgy in the woman's rented
room at Gang Langgar in Taman Sari.

West Jakarta Police chief Lt. Col. Adjie Rustam Ramdja
identified the woman as cake seller Upi, 36, her children Dewi,
16, and Dedi, 20, and their friends, 21-year-old Insar, alias
Andri, and 23-year-old Stephen Kosasih.

"They were all caught at about 10 p.m. on Thursday, smoking
shabu-shabu (crystal methamphetamine) and having sex," Adjie said
at Taman Sari Police Station over the weekend.

"Their neighbors notified us about their activities."

Upi denied to reporters that she was taking drugs when the
police arrived.

"I had just come home from selling cakes very near here when I
saw my daughter and son smoking. I tried to stop them. Not long
after, police came and thought I was involved, too."

Upi said she lived alone with her children after divorcing her
husband nine years ago.

"Well, the landowner, he's a good man, he lets me and my
children occupy the room for free."

Upi admitted that she sometimes took drugs brought by Andri to
help her escape her troubles. She contradicted her earlier
statement by saying she joined her children in taking the drugs
on Thursday.

"Yes, I do enjoy them. They make me fly and forget for a time
all of my problems, but I never meant for my children to follow
me," she said.

"It was just this time ... when I saw them smoking, I felt
like smoking, too."

Dewi, whose hair was sprayed with blue dye, said she dropped
out of school last year due to lack of funds.

"I've only smoked shabu-shabu twice. I have no work. I usually
help my mother with the cakes."

Dedi said he helped his mother by washing dishes. (ylt)