Customs Negligent in Monitoring Tanjung Priok, says Anti-Drugs Watchdog

Henry Yosodiningrat, chairman of the National Movement Against Drugs (Granat), says customs and excise officers are negligent when monitoring Tanjung Priok Port. The comments were made in regard to the smuggling of 351 kilograms of methamphetamine from China via Malaysia to Indonesia. “If methamphetamine can get out of the container port, then the supervision must be very low,” said Henry in Jakarta on Tuesday. Henry is concerned that the low supervision in ports could be taken advantage of by international drug networks to smuggle large quantities of narcotics into Indonesia. “The catch, 351 kilograms of it, may only just be 10 percent of the total amount of drugs smuggled to Indonesia,” Henry said.