Drug dealers see online market as business opportunity, BNN - Jakarta Post

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Tue, 03/13/2012 4:15 PM

Brigjen Benny Mamoto: (Tribunnews.com/Domu D Ambarita)

People’s interest in online shopping has encouraged drug dealers to use similar methods in selling drugs, the National Narcotic Agency (BNN) says.

“The drug dealers saw online shopping as a business opportunity to sell their products. They want to promote and develop their network to increase their illegal sales,” BNN’s operations chief Brig. Gen. Benny Mamoto said Tuesday as quoted by tribunnews.com.

BNN is cooperating with the Communication and Information Ministry, Customs and Excise Directorate General and foreign narcotics agencies such as the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to curb online drug transactions, he said.

“We have also investigated where the drug materials are sourced. We monitor all kinds of business related to drugs,” Benny said.

Benny added that they need an enforcement operation to reduce or eliminate illicit drug supply to dealers and decrease demand from drug abusers by rehabilitating them.

“The role of the family is really important in the latter action. We cannot only rely on [police] officers to settle the drug problem,” he said. (iwa)

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Viking looks for opportunity in Indonesia - Jakarta Post

The Jakarta Post | Wed, 02/29/2012 10:55 AM

JAKARTA: Canadian aircraft maker Viking Air Ltd., producer of the Twin Otter 400 series, is looking for more business opportunities in the Indonesian market this year, an executive said in Jakarta on Tuesday.

“Chartered flight business is growing in Indonesia, and we are pleased to offer aircraft that can operate in the world’s harshest environments,” Robert Mauracher, Viking’s vice president for business development and general manager MRO, said on the sidelines of demonstration flights in Halim Perdanakusumah Airport, East Jakarta.

He said that Viking has received orders from several countries, including the Government of Peru, and a second major purchase agreement for four Viking Series 400 Twin Otters has been executed with PT Airfast Indonesia. Each aircraft costs US$6 million.

The aircraft are scheduled for delivery in 2012 and 2014, and will be configured for land operations as Airfast Indonesia aims to expand its current fleet of three legacy Twin Otters used on charter in the mining industry.

“This summer, we are going to start certification with your regulator,” he said.

The aircraft will also be made available for viewing by commercial, military and government organizations in Surabaya on March 1.  (nfo)

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