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Claudia Stoicescu, Associate Professor, Public Health, Monash University

New research shows how Indonesia's drug control victimises women and puts their health at risk

Officers of the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) conducted a laboratory test on narcotics before the destruction at their office in Jakarta on 9 June 2022. ANTARA FOTO/Galih Pradipta/YU

This article is published to mark the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking on June 26.

On a balmy day in 2009, Adinda Amalia (not a real name) and her boyfriend were arrested after they were caught injecting heroin in an informal shooting gallery – a derelict property in a South Jakarta slum. The arrests followed a police raid on the area.

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