Student charged with drug use

BOGOR (JP): A prosecutor demanded on Wednesday that the Bogor District Court sentence Rino Siswanto, 22, a college student, to two years in prison for narcotics abuse.

Rino was apprehended on June 4 for allegedly using putaw (low- grade heroin) in a boarding house in Kampung Bakbis in Kebon Kelapa, Central Bogor.

"The defendant was caught using putaw and injected the stuff into his body. Such heroin use is in direct violation of article 85 of Law No. 22/1997 on Narcotics," prosecutor Tuasikal said at the hearing.

Rino told the media after the hearing that he was using drugs along with seven friends.

"My friend Dudi was already given a one-and-a-half-year sentence," he said.

The group admitted to obtaining the drugs from a dealer in Kampung Bali in Tanah Abang, Central Jakarta. (24/edt)