Young people get antidrug training

Young people get antidrug training

JAKARTA: Some 250,000 school-aged children and 2000 youth
leaders across the country have been trained to assist in the
national antidrug campaign, the Love the Nation's Children
Foundation (YCAB) said on Thursday.

YCAB chairman Veronica Colondam said that the young people
were expected to be in the vanguard in the war against drugs in
their neighborhoods and schools. The training was provided in
cooperation with the National Narcotics Board (BNN).

"We need their participation because according to a 2002
survey we conducted in 11 big cities throughout the country,
eight percent of children aged between 12 and 19 admitted that
they had tried drugs," she told The Jakarta Post. --JP