Narcotics syndicates

Narcotics syndicates and heavy punishment

An international narcotics transaction involving Columbia's Meddelin Cartel was discovered on Batam island recently.

This just goes to show that Indonesia is now one of the strategic sites worldwide to do the drug business.

It also means that Batam needs more sophisticated detection equipment and officers of the highest moral standards to keep the drug traffickers at bay.

Besides increasing their skills, our police officers must cooperate with their counterparts from other countries because the increasingly sophisticated distribution of illegal drugs has covered world.

Because of the severe impact of the drugs they sell on human beings, drug traffickers deserve the heaviest punishment possible, such as the death penalty, which is applied in Malaysia and Singapore. It is very urgent for Indonesia to enforce such a penalty against anyone involved in the illegal drug trade.

--Media Indonesia, Jakarta