Cross-Border Drugs

ILYAS bin Abdullah will never forget the fateful New Year's eve party in 2014. He danced and took some methshort for methamphetamineat a nightclub in Kinabalu. That night he was approached by Yuyun, who asked him to smuggle the drug across the border. "He promised me Rp150 million," he told Tempo, at a correctional facility in Nunukan Regency, North Kalimantan, four weeks ago.

The delivery order landed him in prison. Last January, the police arrested this 32-year-old laborer from Bone, South Sulawesi, at Tunon Taka Port in Nunukan for possession of three kilograms of meth.

June 16, 2015

ILYAS bin Abdullah will never forget the fateful New Year's eve party in 2014. He danced and took some methshort for methamphetamineat a nightclub in Kinabalu. That night he was approached by Yuyun, who asked him to smuggle the drug across the border. "He promised me Rp150 million," he told Tempo, at a correctional facility in Nunukan Regency, North Kalimantan, four weeks ago.

The delivery order landed him in prison. Last January, the police arrested

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