In Block C of the Tangerang prison, on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia's most dangerous drug trafficking prisoners were held.

At least, those that the government of President

Joko Widodo

considered the most dangerous

before he followed in the footsteps of his Filipino colleague

Rodrigo Duterte

in his war on drugs.

"If they resist arrest, shoot to kill," Widodo ordered after taking office in 2014.

Most of the 54 traffickers who were executed in 2015 passed through Block C. Many were foreigners.

Brazilian Rodrigo Gularte was caught with two friends trying to carry

cocaine hidden in surfboards

.

Nigerian Simon Ezeaputa was also sentenced to death for trafficking in cocaine.

In Tangerang prison there have also been movie episodes, such as the escape of the great Chinese drug trafficker, Cai Changpan.

He dug a hole in his cell

that led to the prison sewer pipes.

There he escaped on September 14, 2020.

Now the focus is back on Tangerang.

But, this time, it was a drama in block C. A fire early Wednesday morning has killed 41 inmates.

The prison was designed to hold no more than 1,225 inmates, later reduced to 600, although right now it was crammed with more than 2,000.

The block where the fire broke out had a capacity for 122 prisoners.

Although the authorities have not wanted to confirm how many were actually present when the fire broke out.

"Also,

eight were seriously injured

and another 72 suffered minor injuries," Jakarta Police Chief Fadil Imran explained at a news conference.

Imran noted that firefighters prevented the fire from spreading to other blocks in the prison and that they fought the flames for two hours before it was extinguished.

"I have reviewed the scene. Based on an early observation, it

is suspected that the fire occurred due to a short circuit,

" he sentenced.

Fire department investigators said they were also considering faulty electrical wiring as a source of the fire.

Local media report that the authorities have opened an investigation to see if it was an accident or the fire was started.

It would not be the first time it happens.

Four years ago, an attempted riot also ended with flames in another of the modules, but it did not go further because the firefighters intervened quickly.

In Indonesia, the war on drugs has continued in recent years, mainly focused on curbing the entry of

methamphetamine,

which is shipped from the so-called Golden Triangle, the border area where Thailand, Laos and Burma meet.

The reign of cocaine has given way to this synthetic drug that was brought into the country by the aforementioned Chinese trafficker Cai Changpan, arrested in 2016 for trafficking 135 kilograms of methamphetamine.

After his first arrest, while awaiting his admission to prison at a police station in the east of the city of Jakarta, he already starred in another escape by escaping along with seven other companions after

drilling

a

hole in the wall of the cell's bathroom with a bar of iron.

Three days later, he was arrested 100 kilometers away, in the town of Sukabumi.

In July 2017, the Tangerang District Court sentenced him to death and locked him up in Tangerang.

After planning his escape for six months, he succeeded last summer by breaking the tiles on the floor of his cell, digging a hole down to the pipes and exiting through the culvert of a road outside the prison.

Cai became Indonesia's most wanted fugitive.

But not for long.

A month later, he was found dead in a tire burning plant within the Jasinga forest in West Java, the country's most populous province.

According to the official version, Cai

would have committed suicide by hanging himself.

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