Indonesian authorities have arrested two Taiwanese nationals for trying to smuggle nearly seven kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine into the country, local media reports said Sunday. The two, identified as Kuo Ting Liu, 23, and Huang Yu Lum, 26, were arrested on Friday by custom officers at Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta International airport, soon after they arrived on a China Airlines flight from Hong Kong.
Bachtiar, chief of the airport’s customs office, was quoted as saying that officers seized 6.9 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine, locally called ’shabu-shabu,’ estimated to be worth at about 10 billion rupiah (700.000 euro) on the local market. The drugs confiscation was the latest drug seizure by Indonesian authorities in recent weeks to have involved foreign nationalities.