JAKARTA, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) -- The police in Indonesia's province of Central Java seized eight kg of crystal methamphetamine and 5,708 pieces of ecstasy from two traffickers, a police officer said.
"Authorities arrested the two suspects at a hotel in Semarang (Central Java capital). As many as eight kg of crystal methamphetamine and 5,708 pieces of ecstasy were found in a room of the hotel," the Central Java Provincial Police's Chief Inspector General Ahmad Luthfi said here Thursday.
He pointed out that the suspects identified as AM and AMQ who are residents of Indonesia's province of Southeast Sulawesi split the illicit goods into small packages.
Luthfi disclosed that the two suspects went to Semarang from Makassar (South Sulawesi province's capital) by air, while the contrabands were sent by sea.
The police are still hunting down the owner of the illicit drugs, he said, adding that the seizure of the crystal methamphetamine and ecstasy has saved at least 91,000 people from possible drug abuses.
According to the Indonesian drug law, those who are found to be involved in drug abuses could face punishment ranging from a five-year jail term to death penalty. Enditem
