Waseso plans to visit a crocodile farm in the city of Medan, North Sumatra, as well as Papua province and the island of Sulawesi in search of the most unsafe breeds.
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The head of Indonesia’s drug law enforcement is reportedly recruiting crocodiles to guard a proposed island prison for drug offenders.
Indonesian drug convicts could find themselves guarded by hungry crocodiles under a plan put forward by the anti-narcotics agency, a spokesperson said Tuesday.
The plan depends on the prisoners being unable to execute Roger Moore’s crocodile-running technique, which was showcased in the Bond movie “Live and Let Die”.
He also said that crocodiles would be better at preventing drug traffickers from escaping as they could not be bribed, unlike human guards. “You can’t bribe crocodiles”.
He said:”We will place as many crocodiles as we can there”.
In April this year, nine foreign drug traffickers including two Australians were killed by firing squad for trying to smuggle 8.3kg of heroin out of Indonesian island Bali.
The program has just started, therefore neither the locations nor the possible opening date of the jail have been confirmed yet.
Despite the harsh laws, Indonesia’s corrupt prison system is awash with drugs, and inmates and jail officials are regularly arrested for narcotics offenses.
The country’s Justice Ministry has yet to approve the odd proposal, but that hasn’t stopped Waseso from pursuing the project.
“Let them overdose by their own drugs”, he said, adding that the narcotics agency was looking for ways to implement the punishment as a form of execution.
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Indonesia takes a hardline stance against drug trafficking, arguing that the country is facing a drug emergency.
