Police Raid Illegal Jamu Factory
Tempo Interactive, Wednesday, 24 March, 2010 | 14:27 WIB
TEMPO Interactive, Cilacap:The Cilacap Police yesterday confiscated thousands of tablets and a traditional herbal drink (jamu) machine which may have contained chemical substances.
“We received a report from the local people so we immediately raided the factory,” said Cilacap Chief of Police Senior Commissioner Guruh Ahmad Fadianto.
The police also seized three bags containing 153,000 jamu tablets, 14,000 brown tablets, six buckets of jamu powder, and one tablet-pressing machine.
The police arrested the alleged factory owner, MRA, who may be penalized with 10 years imprisonment and a Rp 1 billion fine.
“They are strongly suspected of using chemical substances,” Guruh said.
A new modus may have emerged in traditional jamu production, for instance jamu producers no longer produce the jamu at home or in their own factory.
They ask local people to do the production.
The modus is also to fool the officers’ raids.
“Like this MRA, whose house is in Purwokerto but he produces the jamu in Cilacap.”
ARIS ANDRIANTO
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