REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- A member of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle faction, Henry Yosodiningrat, said the revision of Law Number 35 of 2009 with regard to narcotics is needed. He expected it will strengthen the role of the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) in combating drug-related crimes.

"The Narcotics Law consists of 155 articles, and only 37 articles that give authority to the BNN. The rest regulates the authority of the POM and the Ministry of Health," Yosodiningrat said in a discussion of four pillars of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) titled "Narcotics and Destruction of NKRI (Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia) Sovereignty" at the Parliament Complex, Jakarta, on Friday.

He said that in the future, the role of the BNN must be emphasized whether it is in the efforts to prevent or to eradicate narcotics. According to him, prevention is not only restricted to the points of entry of drug trafficking, as there are thousands of tricks used while trafficking.

"Our entrances are thousands, our beaches span across almost one hundred thousand kilometers, we have many conventional ports, and the moral commitment from our law enforcers is lacking. Prevention from the entry point will not be possible due to many forms of drug trafficking," he said.