Tangerang, Banten (ANTARA News) - A Kenyan national has been caught smuggling in illegal methamphetamine worth Rp12.9 billion at Jakarta`s Soekarno-Hatta airport on Monday.

"The arrest was made after he acted suspiciously upon arrival," head of the airport`s customs service`s investigation and enforcement section, Gator Sugeng Wibowo, said.

He said during examination the Kenyan known by his initial as PM (37) was discovered carrying meth in 100 capsules put in his bag.

She told customs officers that this was the first for her to come to Indonesia. She came aboard Emirates Airlines aircraft with flight number EK-368 from Dubai.

The customs and the National Anti-Narcotic Agency officers suspected she was a courier. She could face a death penalty if proven violating Artile 113 of Law Number 35 of 2009 on narcotics.

Earlier a Nigerian national known as BJN (51) was arrested at the airport carrying 1,540 grams of meth put in 106 capsules in his stomach. He came aboard Thai Airways plane from Bangkok.(*)

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