Indonesia’s anti-drugs agency has proposed building a prison on an
island guarded by crocodiles to hold death row drug convicts, an
official has said, an idea seemingly taken from a James Bond film.
The proposal is the pet project of anti-drugs chief Budi Waseso, who
plans to visit various parts of the archipelago in his search for
reptiles to guard the jail.
“We will place as many crocodiles as we can there. I will search for
the most ferocious type of crocodile,” he was quoted as saying by local
news website Tempo.
Waseso said that crocodiles would be better at preventing drug
traffickers from escaping prison as they could not be bribed – unlike
human guards.
“You can’t bribe crocodiles. You can’t convince them to let inmates escape,” he said.
But he is banking on the convicts lacking the crocodile-running
skills shown by Roger Moore’s 007 in the Bond movie Live and Let Die
when he escapes from an island using the reptiles as stepping stones.
The plan is still in the early stages, and neither the location or potential opening date of the jail have been decided.
Indonesia already has some of the toughest anti-narcotics laws in the
world, including death by firing squad for traffickers, and sparked
international uproar in April when it put to death seven foreign drug
convicts, including Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran.
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