Hundreds of Indonesian women work as drug mules in Peru

Hundreds of Indonesian women are working as drug mules in Peru, South America for a global drug smuggling network, the Indonesian National Narcotics Agency (BNN) said.

BNN deputy chief of drug eradication division, Insp Gen Benny Jozua Mamoto said many of them were now in the custody of the Peruvian police.

"Next week, I will fly to Peru to interview some Indonesian women who have been working as drug mules. They have been arrested by the Peruvian police," Benny said this to Jakarta Post on Thursday. q

The Indonesian women who were allegedly part of a drug trafficking syndicate based in Nigeria, were said to have picked up the drugs in Peru and smuggled them to other countries in the world, he said.

Nigeria has long been known as a haven for drug trafficking syndicates that ship heroin from Asian countries to European and American countries, and cocaine from South American countries to European and southern African countries.