Tuesday, March 4, 2008

WN MALAYSIA TERANCAM HUKUMAN SEUMUR HIDUP DI AUSTRALIA

Seorang wanita berkebangsaan Malaysia terancam hukuman penjara seumur hidup jika terbukti bersalah dalam kasus penyelundupan hampir dua kilogram kokain ke Australia.

Kantor Bea Cukai Australia dalam pernyataan persnya, menyebutkan, kasus wanita berusia 45 tahun itu mulai disidangkan di Pengadilan Brisbane Selasa.

Wanita itu diserahkan petugas bea cukai ke Polisi Federal Australia (AFP) setelah ditemukan di dalam tas yang diduga miliknya "serbuk" yang diyakini "kokain".

AFP menuduh warga negara Malaysia yang tiba di Bandar Udara Internasional Brisbane dari penerbangan dari Amerika Selatan hari Senin (3/3) itu telah mencoba memasukkan barang haram ke Australia yang dilarang Akta Pidana Australia tahun 1995.

Bagi para pelanggar, hukuman maksimalnya adalah penjara seumur hidup.

*) My news item for ANTARA on March 4, 2008

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Hi, I am a journalist of ANTARA, Indonesia's national news agency whose headquarters is in Jakarta. My fate has brought me back to Australia since March 2007 because my office assigns me to be the ANTARA correspondent there. My first visit to the neighboring country was in 2004 when I did my masters at the School of Journalism and Communication, the University of Queensland (UQ), Brisbane, under the Australian Development Scholarship (ADS) scheme. However, the phase of my life was started from a small town in North Sumatra Province, called Pangkalan Brandan. In that coastal town, I was born and grown up. Having completed my senior high school there in 1987, I moved to Medan to pursue my study at the University of North Sumatra (USU) and obtained my Sarjana (BA) degree in English literature in 1992. My Master of Journalism (MJ) was completed at UQ in July 2005. The final research project report for my MJ degree was entitled "Framing the Australian Embassy Bombing (Jakarta) in Indonesian and Australian Newspapers". Further details about me can be read in a writing posted in my blog entitled "My Life Journey".

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