REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, PEKANBARU -- Security officers have arrested a student for allegedly carrying 980 ecstasy pills at the Sultan Syarif Kasim II Airport in the Riau provincial capital of Pekanbaru.

"It is true that he was arrested last Saturday," airport duty manager Hasnan stated on Sunday (8/3).

Hasnan said the security officers, who were suspicious of the student, searched him as he was about to enter the check-in room at the airport. He was later taken to the isolation room.

The suspect, identified by the initials DA, had hidden the ecstasy pills known as "Happy Five" in his waist belt, he revealed.