Thread: East Java Teacher Gets 20 Years for Bali Meth Smuggling

East Java Teacher Gets 20 Years for Bali Meth Smuggling
Made Arya Kencana | May 10, 2012

Theresia Avilla Yanti Siwi, 39, (white dress) an English teacher in the East Java town of Malang, leaves the Denpasar District Court after she was sentenced to 20 years in jail for attempting to smuggle 3.5 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine into Bali. (JG Photo/Made Arya Kencana)

Denpasar. The Denpasar District Court sent a female teacher from East Java to 20 years in jail on Thursday for attempting to smuggle Rp 9.3 billion ($1 million) worth of crystal methamphetamine into Bali.

Theresia Avilla Yanti Siwi, 39, an English teacher in a private school in the East Java town of Malang, was also ordered to pay Rp 10 billion in fines, or spend an extra six months in jail.

Prosecutors had sought a life sentence for Theresia.

“The defendant’s crime has tainted the image of educational institutions. As a university graduate, the defendant should have rejected the order [to smuggle the crystal meth],” chief judge Gunawan Tri Budiono said as he read out the verdict.

Gunawan said Theresia had breached Article 113 of the 2009 Law on Narcotics, which rules on narcotics imports.

Theresia was arrested as she arrived at Ngurah Rai International Airport in Denpasar on Oct. 10, 2011, aboard a flight from Kenya. Customs officers found 3.5 kilograms of crystal meth hidden in her suitcase.

Theresia said that she brought the contraband from Mozambique and that she was paid $700 to smuggle it into Bali.

She said that she was only a courier and that she had received orders from a drug dealer named Erika Dewi Widya Yanti.

Erika was arrested on Oct. 11, 2011, in Denpasar, and is currently standing a separate trial in the same case.

Another person standing trial in the case is Nurhadi Imron, who was allegedly supposed to sell the drugs in Bali and Jakarta, including some prisons.

Theresia fainted upon hearing the verdict. But her lawyer, Jacob Antolis, said his client accepted the verdict.

If you follow the Schorby story you will of course realise that she should have said:

I was drunk
I never touched the bag
Show me the fingerprints, not my dabs
It must have been baggage handlers
I was a scapegoat for a corrupt government
The judge was against me

Poor lady now has to spend 20 years wth assorted Australian slappers in Kerobokan.

Originally Posted by BKKBanger

Poor meth smuggler lady now has to spend 20 years wth assorted Australian slappers in Kerobokan.

Fixed that for you. You left out the key words.

Poor dear.

Personally (after a warning), I would execute any fnucker dealing in meth.

However, anybody diligent enough to care about high grade coke, smack, lsd, ganja (in this difficult environment against the multinationals) should be Knighted.

Originally Posted by aging one

Originally Posted by BKKBanger

Poor meth smuggler lady now has to spend 20 years wth assorted Australian slappers in Kerobokan.

Fixed that for you. You left out the key words.

WHAT? But the ONLY evidence against her was a BIG BAG OF DRUGS and a confession.

She would not be convicted in any fair court, just ask ENT.

Who's the fat twat in the red dress?

^^More garbage from the tosspot.

Go on ENT, tell us how without the confession (doubtless beaten out of her by a corrupt police force) she should have been let off as there was no real evidence (JUST A BIG BAG OF DRUGS).

Is the difference with Schapelle Corby just that this is a middle aged lady from Java and Schapele was an Aussie surf chck?

lucky not to get the death sentence, I thought Indonesia had that policy, $700 ia fu*k all considering the risks..

Originally Posted by SiLeakHunt

$700 ia fu*k all considering the risks..

$700 is fuck all, without even considering the risks!

She is a drug smuggler (sorry, a BIG BAG OF DRUGS in your suitcase / boogy board bag is all that is required to convict) but we will believe she is an honest drug smuggler and not lie??????

$700 is roughly Rp7m which for a teacher in Malang is about 3 months salary.

Possible.

Originally Posted by SiLeakHunt

lucky not to get the death sentence, I thought Indonesia had that policy, $700 ia fu*k all considering the risks..

Anyone convicted under Art 80 of the Narcotics Law for smuggling this rubbish can expect a range of possible sanctions
(1) Anyone whomsoever without any rights or illegally:
a. Produces, processes, extracts, converts, composes, or prepares narcotics Category I shall be punished with a death sentence, or life sentence, or imprisonment of not more than 20 years and a fine of not more than IDR. 1,000,000,000. (One billion rupiahs)

Schapelle Corby got 20 years for exactly the same offence, bringing a BIG BAG OF DRUGS into Indonesia via the airport (both Class I). If you are a black African you can expect the death penalty and plenty get executed each year. Being female and a former pillar of the community got her a good result, only 20 years.

And if she'd been a Muslim instead of Xtian (Filipina?) tefler she would get an even lighter sentence.

Originally Posted by Sir Wilson

Denpasar. The Denpasar District Court sent a female teacher from East Java to 20 years in jail on Thursday for attempting to smuggle Rp 9.3 billion ($1 million) worth of crystal methamphetamine into Bali.
Theresia Avilla Yanti Siwi, 39, an English teacher in a private school in the East Java town of Malang, was also ordered to pay Rp 10 billion in fines, or spend an extra six months in jail.

I guess she won't be paying that fine.

^^ what would you know, Ent?

^ yep, there's a pretty good chance that a teacher earning approx $200 per month is not going to have a spare $1,000,000 to avoid 6 months jail.

Must admit being ignorant of the actual feeling, but does 6 months on top of 20 years really make much of a difference?

Originally Posted by ENT

And if she'd been a Muslim instead of Xtian (Filipina?) tefler she would get an even lighter sentence.

I think you will find she is Indonesian and a Christian from Malang (Plenty from around there).

If she had been a Muslim she would have got the same sentence. I don't know why Islamophobia is so popular nowadays, perhaps it is just a misunderstanding of another person's culture.

Bollocks, Islam is a dictatorial non-egalitarian culture.