Overview

• Customs at Ngurah Rai International Airport stopped the 42-year-old on 12 August after observing suspicious behavior following her arrival from Qatar.
• Officers say they found 1.4kg of cocaine and 43 ecstasy pills worth about $70,000 concealed in a sex toy inserted into her body and in her underwear.
• Police identified the suspect only as NS and said she reported being recruited in April via the dark web to transport the drugs to Indonesia.
• Authorities have charged her under Indonesia’s narcotics law, which allows for the death penalty for serious drug offenses.
• Indonesia keeps some of the world’s toughest drug laws, with around 530 people on death row, and Bali courts recently sentenced an Argentine woman to seven years for smuggling 244 grams of cocaine.