Indonesia navy seizes 1.3 tonnes of ketamine from Tanzanian ship MV King Sun

On 6 August, the KRI Kerambit-627 warship stopped the Tanzanian-flagged MV King Sun off Tanjung Berakit in Indonesia's Riau Islands province and found 65 rucksacks of suspected ketamine in the hold. The haul weighed 1.3 tonnes. The Indonesian military estimated the drugs' value at up to 4.55 trillion rupiah, about $254 million.

Eight crew members were detained: seven Myanmar nationals and one Taiwanese national. Indonesian military intelligence had been tracking MV King Sun since February, after receiving word that the ship was sailing east from Thailand carrying suspicious cargo.