Denpasar Customs destroys IDR3.6 billion worth of confiscated items

Denpasar Customs destroys IDR3.6 billion worth of confiscated items, including alcohol, sex toys, weapons and other fun stuff

Coconuts Bali Dec. 21, 2017

Denpasar Customs is destroying thousands of items that their office confiscated over the past couple years, worth about IDR3.6 billion (US$265,671) this week.

Who needs an annual end-of-year holiday party when your office gets to rally to burn and grind up a bunch of glass bottles, weapons, and other miscellaneous stuff?

The destruction, will be done by burning, grinding, and cutting at the Suwung landfill. A ceremony celebrating the huge haul of stuff that’s getting wrecked was held at the Denpasar Customs and Excise Supervisory and Service Office on Jl. Tukad Badung on Wednesday.

Items to be destroyed include about three million ‘illegal’ cigarettes, 447 bottles of alcoholic drinks, airsoft guns, swords, contraceptives, sex toys, and other goods that had been imported illegally or without proper permit.

While sex toys are not formally prohibited, Indonesia’s vaguely worded anti-pornography law allows some loose interpretation, whereby dildos and other items could be labeled at pornographic.

Denpasar Customs director, Abdul Kharis said all these items were uncovered coming in to Bali through the Renon Post Office and Benoa Port. Items confiscated from people traveling through Ngurah Rai are handled by the airport’s own customs division.

“Most of this stuff is from East Java. When we work, we do not know exactly whether Bali is the final destination or just a point of transit,” Kharis said, as quoted by Merdeka.

Kharis added that the items getting destroyed this week were confiscated by Denpasar Customs between 2015 and 2017.


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