Another caught in Indonesia with pot...

[SukonmiSkunk]

:bow too true Frazz

[WantDaChronic]

My understanding is that it was 50g of bud plus two bags of seeds.

 

well i am probably jumping to conclusions, but where do you think the seeds came from?

[XPATSEEDS]

Poor women.. I don't care what the laws are. I don't wish anyone the pain of going to jail over one of the earths great gifts to man kind.

 

It's just stupid.

 

All i can say is that I will never be going to indon.. Not in a millon years!

 

xpat

[Oz]

UPDATE: An Australian woman facing up to 10 years in an Indonesian prison for drug possession has admitted owning a small amount of cannabis, police say.

 

Barbara Kathleen Higgs, 43, was arrested on Sunday on Lombok island allegedly with 50 grams of cannabis and two small bags of seeds at Senggigi beach, where she part-owns a hotel named the Bulan Baru, or New Moon.

 

Higgs - originally from Pinjarra, Western Australia, and now a resident in Indonesia - is the latest Australian arrested under tough Indonesian anti-drug laws.

 

Lombok police Major Tribudi Pangestuti said Higgs was being questioned and was being held at a women's prison in the Lombok's capital, Mataram.

 

"So far she has admitted she used the drug for her own consumption," she told AAP.

 

Tribudi said Higgs, who has lived with her New Zealand husband in Lombok for five years, allegedly admitted that she bought the drug from a friend at Senggigi for 500,000 rupiah, or $A73.

 

"The friend was an Indonesian and we don't know how long she's been a drug user for," she said.

 

"Her case will be submitted to the prosecutor shortly, as soon as possible."

 

She said Higgs would be charged with possession under article 78 of anti-narcotics laws, carrying up to 10 years in jail and fines of up to $A73,000.

 

Higgs had been visited by Australian consular officials from Bali and offered assistance.

 

Her arrest comes amid a nationwide drug crackdown in Indonesia ordered by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

 

A Bali court last week sentenced two Australians to death and another seven to life in jail after they were arrested trying to smuggle more than eight kilograms of heroin from Bali to Australia.

 

Author: AAP

Date: 23/02/06

Source: The Age

Copyright: © 2006 AAP

[WantDaChronic]

"So far she has admitted she used the drug for her own consumption," she told AAP.

 

great, now she will get 10 years regardless and the indonesian's will consider that a fair punishment for a "confessed" criminal

[Oz]

True... In the first article I read on this they were saying she had denied it was hers and would be fighting it...

[everest]

poor bitch , she'd be an old lady when she get's out :thumbdown

 

i been to senggigi beach , lombok & to be honest this lady is a fukin plonker, it's a real quaint holiday spot looking at bali and a jump off to the gilie isles .... they also got kuta lombok . kuta beach same name as bali but a better beach ... no body there ... very muslim place & mataram that's a shithole

 

ev :smoke

[boomstix]

on the subject of different penalties for child abuse and drugs

 

the americans link their aid funding to the laws they want enforced

hence harsh penalties for drugs because the 'war on drugs' is their baby

 

since they don't care about sex tourism, no pressure on the 'governments' who want aid to crack down on it

 

and we end up with a situation where 2 bags of weed in your room is punishable by more jail time than raping two little girls

 

that's what i call enforcing the 'american way'

 

to any americans out there, sorry to tar you with the same brush, those foreign policies are really giving you guys a bad name

[Gruntus]

Indonesia is just another nation with backwards ideas about drugs (like the USA..). It's filled with people who don't challenge authority (cos' they don't wanna disappear). I've travelled there extensively but will never go back as long as it punishes people for the herb. I'll spend my money only in tolerant countries. Vote with your dollars..

[Stoney]

thats crazy there laws over there are so harsh but we all know about them does anyone else thing that maybe there may be some dirty cops planting this shit cause really why would you have 2 bags of seed????

i recon if you want a holiday to smoke drugs and have weird sex go to amsterdam i had a blast (no weird sex though ha ha) if you want a cheep holiday that you will probably spend at lease 3-4 days on the toilet swearing you will never eat again and drinking cheap cheap beer then by all means go to bali