Legal Literacy - This article discusses strategies for combating narcotics crimes in Indonesia through supply and demand reduction approaches. Narcotics smuggling, categorized as an extraordinary crime, has shown a significant increase in recent years and is considered a threat to national security. The discussion includes statistical analysis of smuggling, the negative effects of narcotics, and the role of Law Number 35 of 2009 concerning Narcotics. Furthermore, the article explains the government's policies in breaking the chain of narcotics users (demand reduction) and narcotics syndicate networks (supply reduction), as well as the juridical handling of this transnational crime, including relevant criminal sanctions.

The Problem of Narcotics Crimes in Indonesia

The circulation of narcotics in Indonesia is increasingly rampant from year to year. This action does not only occur domestically, but also across national borders. Based on statistical data on narcotics handling from the Center for Data and Information Research (Puslitdatin) of the National Narcotics Board (BNN), there were 461 smuggling cases in 2019, 568 cases in 2020, 449 cases in 2021, and 768 cases in 2022 until March 2023.

Basically, narcotics are often misused, causing negative effects for users. Therefore, everything related to narcotics, such as misuse, distribution, and drug smuggling, is often…