A German man has been detained on the Indonesian resort island of Lombok for attempting to smuggle 3.7 kilograms (8.1 pounds) of hashish with a street value of $730,000, officials said Sunday. Rolf Oskar Josef Schweikert, 57, was arrested upon landing on Saturday at Lombok’s airport, arriving from Singapore with Silk Air, provincial customs office chief Listrijono told reporters. “We arrested again a foreign national trying to smuggle illegal drugs into the island of Lombok. The 3.7 kilograms of hashish were found in the lining of his suitcase,” he said. “The suspect could face a death penalty under Indonesian law,” provincial police detective chief Ricky Simon Paays said. Indonesian police arrested a South African woman on Thursday attempting to smuggle 2.6 kilograms of methamphetamine with a street value of $500,000 into the island. Indonesia enforces stiff penalties, including life imprisonment and death, for drug trafficking. Two members of an Australian drug smuggling gang known as the “Bali Nine”, who were arrested in 2005, are on death row, while seven others face lengthy jail terms. Another Australian, Schapelle Corby, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for smuggling 4.1 kilos of marijuana in 2005, recently had her term slashed by five years after a clemency appeal to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
