Drug-related crimes and substance abuse dominated discussions at the first National Security Conference 2024, said Home Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail after officiating the closing ceremony of the conference on Sept 2.
He said many criminal activities often begin with drug problems.
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00:00From the four clusters of discussion, for each cluster there is a priority.
00:09So in terms of social safety clusters, the drug was raised.
00:12And that is one of the many inputs given by the participants in the trial
00:18which led to the resolution being raised as one of the sure.
00:24The effects are various.
00:26First, when we look at the crime rate,
00:31whether it is a crime of violence, a crime of property,
00:34according to the police report,
00:36the majority of the perpetrators, most of them started with drug problems.
00:42Most of them.
00:43Then it ended with armed robbery.
00:45It ended with murder.
00:47It ended with a crime of property.
00:53So it is very closely related.
00:56So the participants of the trial assumed that if we can mitigate it in the initial stage,
01:01then the effects of other crimes can be raised.
01:05As an example.
01:06So why is it still a concern after more than 40 years?
01:11I said earlier.
01:13So in today's trial, we give the freedom to the participants
01:19who represent each sector and each segment to freely give their views.
01:24So that is one of the results given by Maklum Balang.
01:3168% of the prisoners are related to drug crimes.
01:37Either under a criminal record or under a different record.
01:43So the number of prisoners, the number of AADKs that we treat and recover,
01:51either in the post-pen institution or in the community.
01:55In the post-pen, we have about 10,000.
01:57But what we treat and recover through the community, we have another 70,000.
02:03So every year we record a budget of Rp135,000
02:08through the four sources of data that I mentioned earlier.
02:11The drug part, the drug part, the post-pen, the drug recovery center,
02:16the Ministry of Health and the AADK.
02:21So it gives us on average about Rp135,000 a year.
02:25And we must manage all of that.
02:28So it can lead to problems in society.
02:31It can lead to criminal trends.
02:33It can lead to the arrest of prisoners.
02:36So the effects are complex.
02:38So I am patient with this safety issue under the title of the social safety cluster.
02:44Participants believe that it is still a safety issue that should be given special attention by the government.
03:01For more information, visit www.fema.gov