Pasuruan Customs Destroys Illegal Cigarettes and Alcohol Worth Rp 9.3 Billion
Pasuruan Customs, alongside law enforcement agencies and the local government, held a symbolic destruction of evidence from illegal excise goods enforcement at the Pasuruan Regent’s Office courtyard on Thursday (24/09/2026). Following the ceremony, the remaining goods were transported to a waste processing company in Ngoro, Mojokerto, to be destroyed using environmentally friendly methods.
“The goods we are destroying are the results of enforcement actions conducted throughout the period from September 2025 to May 2026,” stated the Head of Pasuruan Customs, Wijang Abdillah.
Through surveillance operations in the Pasuruan region and its surroundings, Pasuruan Customs secured a total of 11.7 tonnes of illegal goods, consisting of 6,153,566 sticks of cigarettes without excise stamps and 3,007.2 litres of illegal alcohol, with a total value of Rp 9.39 billion. These findings have the potential to cause state losses in the excise sector amounting to Rp 4.66 billion.
“The perpetrators were found to be using various modes of operation to deceive officers, ranging from disguising goods among household moving loads and utilising Courier Service Companies (PJT), to transporting them using intercity travel vehicles,” said Wijang.
These actions violate Article 54 in conjunction with Article 56 of Law Number 11 of 1995 concerning Excise, as amended by Law Number 7 of 2021 concerning the Harmonisation of Tax Regulations, which carries a threat of up to five years in prison and a maximum fine of ten times the excise value.
Wijang emphasised that the enforcement and destruction of illegal excise goods is a tangible commitment by Customs to secure state revenue and protect the community as a ‘community protector’ from products that do not meet quality standards. “Pasuruan Customs also urges the public and business actors not to trade illegal excise goods in order to create fairness for the legal industry that complies with the regulations,” he added.