Pirated VCDs seized in Bandung

Pirated VCDs seized in Bandung

BANDUNG: The customs and excise office here seized on Monday a
steel container loaded with some 129,000 pirated Video Compact
Discs (VCDs) of Indonesian movies transported from Singapore.

Chief of the customs and excise office I Ketut Sidikarya said
that the illegal freight had entered a checkpoint in Gedebage in
Bandung on Thursday.

"According to the document, the contents were supposed to be
blank VCDs. But when we checked further, it turned out that all
the discs had Indonesian movies on them," Sidikarya said. Losses
to the state from the sales of pirated VCDs is estimated to reach
Rp 1.2 billion.

The company that ordered the VCDs argued that it was all
rejected export items.

"But based on the preliminary inquiry we suspect that the
VCDs, which included titles such as Tarzan, Cinta di Awal 30,
Daerah Jagoan, have been illegally copied," Sidikarya said.
(25/edt)