Drug Arrest Ethics
April 18th, 2005
Recently a group of Australians was arrested in Bali for trying to smuggle 11kg of Heroin into Australia. What makes it interesting to me is that the Australian Federal Police provided the intelligence to the Indonesian police so that they could make the arrests. This basically has sentenced the perpetrators (some or all of who are Australian citizens) to death.
Personally, I think letting the Indonesian’s do the arrests is the right thing to do but is it possible that the information be provided under a premise it is life imprisonment, not the death sentence. In saying that, I don’t think any more tension needs to be created between Indonesia and Australia.