"We will sink ships attempting to smuggle illicit drugs into Indonesia," Waseso said.Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Head of the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) Commissioner General Budi Waseso plans to intensify sea patrols to prevent illicit drug smuggling attempts via sea.
"We will sink ships attempting to smuggle illicit drugs into Indonesia," Waseso noted here on Tuesday.
The agency has readied personnel to conduct sea patrols to stop drug smuggling attempts.
"My target is to sink (those ships) and to arrest the crew," he remarked.
Such a strategy will have a deterrent effect on international drug syndicates, he affirmed.
The BNN has also set up a special team to track drug financiers.
"There will be a special task force," he noted.
He claimed to have the data on those who would be tracked down.
"I will later just give an instruction to find A, so they will look for A until they find him/her," he noted.
President Joko Widodo has approved the establishment of a special team, and the budget has been allocated, according to Waseso.
He is optimistic that the special team would play a crucial role in the efforts to eradicate illicit drugs, particularly by arresting the mafia members and financiers.
The teams members are currently being trained, he revealed.
"The team I have set up, I guarantee, could not be bribed," he stated.(*)
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