The Directorate General of Customs and Excise (DJBC) as the "guard" border gate has big challenges in its efforts to supervise international narcotics smuggling into Indonesia. Recently, at DJBC, a special directorate was created handle trafficking activities, namely Narcotics Interdictation Directorate. This study discusses threats risks context customs excise Indonesia, which makes DJBC need ...

Drug smuggling by internal bodily concealment is a growing international problem. The management of a patient who swallowed packages containing heroin is described. The medical management, indications for surgery and the ethical dilemmas of treating patients with drugs concealed within the gastrointestinal tract are discussed.

Since 2003, the U.S. government has spent $850 million on the Megaport Initiative which aims at stopping the nuclear smuggling in international container shipping through advanced inspection facilities including Non-Intrusive Inspection (NII) and Mobile Radiation Detection and Identification System (MRDIS). Unfortunately, it remains a significant challenge to efficiently inspect more than 11.7 ...

The study of drug smuggling has often taken an organizational perspective whereby the structures how is constituted predominate. Building on a growing body scholarship addressing networked complexities this article considers importance distinct infrastructural arrangements. Its primary focus materiality infrastructures, and social, spatial temporal qualities these configurations overlap with li...

OBJECTIVE To assess the effect of the opening of the Taiwanese cigarette market on cigarette consumption, changes in market share, and the effects on tobacco control efforts. METHODS With the use of key word "Taiwan", the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library of the University of California, San Francisco, was searched for internal documents related to smuggling activities, promotion of light ciga...