RI's NGO delegate arrested for drugs
RI's NGO delegate arrested for drugs
The Jakarta Post, Nusa Dua, Bali
A thirty-year-old participant in the Indonesian People's Forum
(IPF) meetings here, Revy Husodo, was arrested on Tuesday
afternoon after security officers found some two grams of dried
marijuana stashed inside his wallet.
"He was arrested jointly by UN and Indonesian police officers,
and is currently under detention at Denpasar Police Headquarter,"
Denpasar Police chief of detectives Commissioner Budi Wasono said
on Wednesday.
Initially, the security officers had only wanted to question
Revy after he was seen walking suspiciously back and forth in the
lobby of the Bali International Convention Center (BICC) Nusa
Indah, the main venue for the fourth preparatory committee
meeting for the World Summit on Sustainable Development.
However, when security officers found out that Revy was
wearing two official conference IDs, one being an NGO ID and the
other an official Indonesian delegate's ID, the officers became
suspicious and asked him to undergo a body search.
The officers later found some two grams of dried marijuana
inside his wallet.
"When we tried to escort him out of the BICC, he grabbed the
wallet and instantly swallowed the marijuana. Fortunately, we did
not lose all the evidence because some 0.01 grams of the
marijuana were still left untouched at the bottom of the wallet,"
Budi Wasono said.
Separately, IPF's local coordinator Ngurah Karyadi, who had
already been informed of the arrest, stressed that the IPF was
not responsible for the personal behavior of its participants.
"This (the arrest) is a personal matter and not the
responsibility of the IPF.
"Revy is only a participant in the IPF, and not an active
member of the organizing committee. We have contacted a lawyer to
provide him with any legal advice he may need," he said.
Yet, both the IPF and the police are at a loss to know how a
person could obtain two different official IDs for the event,
which has been touted as having tight security arrangements.