Originally Posted by ozstamps
Gov't there has been having a
really heavy anti-drug crackdown in recent months. One Australian girl Schappelle Corby (
google that ) has been in prison for around a year as they claim to have found a huge pile of marijuana they claim she was flying
INTO Bali packed in her checked surf board bag (Huh -
importing grass to Asia where it costs 10% of local price???) She just got a 20 year jail sentence, and claims (and most here believe her) she had never seen it before, and had nothing to do with it.
One Australian girl caught with just
2 ecstasy tablets in her carry bag in a club last week in a Bali club is facing 15 years prison in an Indonesian jail, and has been locked up since. The Govt' has made these kind of folks the un-willing victims of an enormous media circus, parading them to the cameras with smiles on the faces of the cops etc. Corruption of "evidence" etc.
Sydney model Michelle Leslie, 24, faces up to 15 years in jail after being caught with two ecstasy tablets in her bag as she entered a party at Kuta's GWK Park last weekend.[/I]
I have information from credible Balinese sources that it's Australians who are importing the drugs from Aceh.
I never travel to Bali unless I have a carryon piece of luggage. And, I don't think you have need to worry about the BaliDo 2006 group. Recreational drugs are the least of importance to us.