VP Opens International Drug Conference

Nusa Dua (Antara Bali) - Indonesian Vice President Boediono opened the 29th International Drug Enforcement Conference (IDEC) organised by the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) in collaboration with the US Drug Enforcement Agency here on Tuesday.

"Narcotics crimes are transnational crimes that have now expanded worldwide with an extensive network, neat and discreet, that can reach out to the global order. It requires international cooperation because no country will be able to work alone in this matter," he told the delegates.

Boediono confirmed that Indonesia was determined to eradicate narcotics crimes by cooperating with other countries and by implementing policies and strategies to ensure a drug-free Indonesia by 2015.

There have been increasing efforts to combat drug crime in Indonesia.

The latest case reported by the National Drug Agency involved a joint operation with the United States, China and Hong Kong, whereby the agency seized a container of about 1.5 million ecstasy pills from Shen Zen, China, which was ready to be shipped to Jakarta on May 25, 2012.

Meanwhile, the head of BNN, Gories Mere, stated that the conference is the first such conference to be held outside the United States and other Western countries.(IGT/T007)