Two young people arrested with drugs in Indonesia are from Madeira

Tobi Hughes·
Madeira News

The news just coming in, indicates that two young Portuguese men were arrested with drugs in Indonesia. At the end of the day, RTP said that the young people were from Madeira and were intercepted with two kilos of cocaine.

The news was initially reported by SIC, on Wednesday morning, which said that the arrests took place on Sunday and that they were due to drug trafficking, a crime that, in Indonesia, is punishable by the death penalty, with the Ministry of Business Portuguese foreigners are monitoring the situation and preparing a prison visit in Jakarta, a ministry source confirmed to Lusa.

The young people must have taken the drugs from Lisbon via Dubai to Jakarta, the country where the drugs were intercepted by the authorities. The recipient would also be a young man from Madeira who was already in Indonesia.

The penal framework in this country is very heavy and now the young people are in prison awaiting trial, and the Portuguese Government has the task of asking the local authorities, and specifically the President of Indonesia, for clemency for these two young people.

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8 Responses

  1. Why should they receive clemency? The punishment protocols in Indonesia/Singapore are well known. They should hope for life in prison. He was lucky he was not caught in Dubai.

  2. Why should the government in Portugal get involved. They would have known the penalty for getting caught and took the gamble. This vile trade needs to be stamped out, I do not support the Indonesian stance but perhaps life in a Jakarta is the alternative.

  3. Most countries in SE Asia know the death penalty for drug trafficking. This common knowledge. I was back packing in the early 90ties through many of those countries and every day you could here in the news of young people getting caught. Sometimes even when drug dealers were sentenced to death… maybe those two guys should have read „Bangkok Hilton“

  4. The rule of thumb is don’t commit a crime if you don’t want to do the crime! However, I can only point out that most criminals aren’t all that bright….if I were of the ilk that were to consider trafficking cochineal, first I would most definitely not consider sourcing cochineal from Indonesia!! Not exactly an area of the world renowned for this! When you consider Portugal’s connections with South America, surely this would have been better/safer. In fact, sourcing anywhere would have proved safer……as in no lifetime lockup in the harshest of prisons and certainly no risk of death penalties!
    Serves them right and I doubt there is much the intervening of the Portuguese government will achieve. More powerful nations with far more bargaining powers have tried and failed, repeatedly.

    2. Sounds like you’re giving advice to other wanna be smugglers instead of condeming the practice outright. Whether bright or not, they took the gamble and I’m afraid must now pay the price. It’s hypocritical for the media to show these smugglers as the victims while turning a blind eye to the tradgedy that these drugs cause to families and society as a whole. Let them hang.

  5. Regardless of whether they are criminals and naive, it is shocking for someone from the free world to think that these young people could have their lives permanently interrupted because of this. I hope they assume the consequences without the most serious decisions that undermine the dignity of human life. This is a strong reminder to ourselves that exotic worlds may not be was all idyllic they are with beaches and mountains and attractive lifestyle . There may be other exoticism that we are unaware of. In a highly corrupt countries where even with the criminal framework it continues to be a drug den of attraction for many that still tinking doing should never forget that can be caught and with their lives complete destroyed .

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