Official faced with dismissal for drugs

Official faced with dismissal for drugs

JAKARTA (JP): An immigration official currently detained for
alleged drug abuse is facing dismissal, Director General of
Immigration M. Mudakir said on Friday.

Mudakir said the official, Muhammad Hidayat, would lose his
job if the court found him guilty of using and selling drugs that
he stole from his office.

When arrested on Monday night, police found one gram of shabu-
shabu (crystal methamphetamine) in his hotel room in Central
Jakarta. Hidayat told the police he was in charge of intelligence
in his office.

Mudakir said the suspect had been temporarily posted to the
Jakarta Ministry of Justice and Human Rights office since
September after serving in the Soekarno-Hatta Airport immigration
office for six years.

Hidayat, Mudakir said, had a bad track record and had faced
disciplinary action in July after taking a three-month
unauthorized leave of absence.

"He (Hidayat) also frequently did things which tarnished the
immigration office's image," he said without elaborating.

Mudakir asserted that he would not hesitate to take stern
measures against other officers who violated the civil service
code of conduct.

He had also instructed a mandatory drug test on immigration
officers across the country, following Hidayat's arrest.

"The test is aimed at finding out whether or not immigration
officers are using drugs," he said.(01)