Indonesia’s Growing Narcotics Problem
Last July Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo echoed the Philippines’ murderous chief executive Rodrigo Duterte, saying police should shoot drug traffickers on sight to deal with what Jokowi, as the president is known, termed a narcotics emergency facing the country.
That is an anti-drug tactic that has been condemned universally by the United Nations and …
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