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January 06, 2012

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pagun
10:44am Jan 24, 2012

Are there no more copy editors or fact checkers at the Globe?

The gun manufacturer is Beretta, not Bareta. There is no such thing as a 3.2 millimeter handgun. I suspect that where you print Walter, you mean Walther. And that the weapon described as 22 millimeter is probably 22 cal. The weapons manufacturer you refer to as Jening is probably Jennings. There is no weapon called a "Wonley Convention" or anything resembling that and certainly not a manufacturer of anything like a 38 millimeter handgun.

If the Globe is to be the journal of record for Jakarta and Indonesia, one would hope that they could occasionally get their facts straight.

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At least 11 firearms, more than 100 bullets and about 200 grams of methamphetamine were discovered inside a 15-kilogram gas canister in Bekasi, police said on Thursday.

The canister was found on Tuesday among others stored at gas service company Bejana Agung Wajatama at Kampung Pegadungan in Bekasi, Jakarta Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Baharudin Djafar said.

“Our personnel are still looking for the owner of that canister,” he added.

Comr. Noviana Tursanurohmad, the head of Bekasi district police’s detective unit, said a company worker identified as Dalim had thought the heavier-than-normal canister was filled with water and so had opened it to clean it.

The canister weighed 26 kilograms instead of the usual 15 kilograms.

Instead of water, however, it was bullets that came out, Noviana said. Dalim immediately went to his superiors, and the company subsequently alerted the police.

The canister, he said, was traced back to Eramina Kencana in the Cakung industrial zone in East Jakarta.

It was one of 200 15-kilogram canisters the company had sent to Bekasi for repair and repainting.

The police bomb squad, alerted by Bejana Agung Wajatama, sent its officers to handle the canister. When they opened it, they found the firearms and drugs.

Closer examination showed that the bottom part of the canister had been modified and could be screwed off.

Inside they found the hand guns: three 22-millimeter Baretas, two 3.2-millimeter Baretas, one 8-millimeter Protection, one 30-millimter Jening firearm, one 22-millimeter Walter, one 9-millimeter Walter, one 38-millimeter Wonley Convention and two home-assembled 22-millimeter revolvers.

There were also 161 bullets, nine bullet magazines and three packs containing 225 grams of methamphetamine.

Baharudin could not say if the canister’s owner was linked to a drug syndicate.

“The investigators are still studying this,” Baharudin said.

He declined to say whether the discovery might indicate that drug syndicates operating in Indonesia were now arming themselves.

Indonesia had for a long time been only a stepping stone in drug traffic between the Asian mainland and Australia.

But in recent decades it has developed a market of its own, and police have increasingly uncovered drug rings involving foreign syndicates.

Police have questioned six witnesses, three each from the two companies involved.