Indonesia's harsh drug laws and rising HIV

Anchor Moy · Post by **Anchor Moy** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 8:17 am

Just when you thought it was the 21st century. What a good idea to round up drug users and lock them away. And wasn't Indonesia lucky to have elected such a progressive president instead of a military reactionary.
Be warned you recreational drug users traveling through Indonesia; this affects you too.

... The president also ordered the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) to dramatically increase the number of users in the country's rehabilitation programs. The agency wants to be placing 400,000 drug users a year into rehab by 2017, and ultimately, in effect, the BNN wants to force every drug user in Indonesia, from recreational marijuana smokers to long-term heroin addicts, into treatment.

"In Indonesia, there are 4 million drug addicts," the BNN's spokesman said earlier this year. "So if we rehabilitate 400,000 addicts a year, then in 10 years our work will be done."

The BNN has been conducting sweeps in open-air drug markets, private homes, hotel rooms, and even entire apartment buildings, forcing residents to submit urine samples in a push to meet a presidential quota of 100,000 new patients in drug treatment facilities by the end of 2015. Meanwhile, the BNN's new chief continues to float controversial ideas, like a plan to build an island prison for drug traffickers that is surrounded by crocodiles, tigers, and piranha...

"These policies are one of the reasons why HIV increased here," Afriano says. "If there are difficulties finding needles, [heroin users] will share the needles instead...

https://news.vice.com/article/harsh-dru ... -over-both

frank lee bent · Post by **frank lee bent** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 5:23 pm

after living in Java for 4 delightful years, i moved to Australia and a decade passed with frequent visits.
In the late 1990's the Osama t- shirts became common in Jogjakarta and Jakarta.
Wahab money flowed into madrassahs from about 1980 onwards.
especially remote areas with poor access.
They lost me over that and the drug stings the cops run in Bali.
fuck em- i will never go back.