Topic: Escalating Violence in the International Drug Trade
Country: Indonesia
Delegate Name: Elizabeth Caldwell
School: Ann Arbor Community High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Indonesia position papers GLIMUN 2010 committees
The Republic of Indonesia believes that the increased violence is an increasing detrimental problem to other countries but that the increasing violence has yet to occur within our own borders. Many other countries have had their own issues with the increased violence that has led to massacres, shoot outs, threats and large numbers of police officers and government agents dead.
Indonesia has a distinct, increasingly important, problem with drug usage. Approximately one in every fifty people is currently using illicit drugs in Indonesia. In the capital city of Jakarta, there is an alarming increase from the overall average, meaning that approximately one person in every thirty-two people uses illicit drugs.
The most common abused substance is street-grade heroin, followed by methamphetamines and then followed by medicinal pills combined with alcohol.
We are disturbed by the increased violence towards law enforcement, tourists and even native citizens that are being directly threatened by these huge drug cartels. These ways that these organizations keep control over their various territories is highly appall able and is against the basic human rights as stated within the UN charter. Even if Indonesia has a large drug usage problem, the cartels within Indonesia do not threaten the average person or police officer.
We can only recommend the immediate shut down of the drug trade worldwide. We have committed to having an illicit drug free influence by 2015. We can only hope that other sovereign nations wills support our plan and do the same to help us end drug violence around the world.
