REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, PONTIANAK -- The West Kalimantan National Narcotics Agency (BNN) has destroyed 4.5 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine that the agency's officers confiscated in January 2019 using an incinerator. The destroyed crystal meth was the evidence of two drug crimes uncovered by the agency's officers in January, the West Kalimantan National Narcotics Agency officer, Mashadi Eka Surya Agus, told journalists here on Tuesday.
Quoting the BNN's statistical data, the agency's officers had seized 110 kilograms of crystal meth, 9,600 ecstasy pills, and 39 marijuana plants from several raids conducted between 2016 and early 2019, he stated.
These seized addictive drugs indicated that West Kalimantan had become one of the drug traffickers' targets, Agus noted, adding that the University of Indonesia (UI) research findings revealed that the drugs had affected 56,444 residents of the province.
"In the past, West Kalimantan might have been used by the international drug rings as a transit area, but, now, it has become a destination of the drug traffickers," he remarked.