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The Chinese Tea Route: Methamphetamine, Maritime Smuggling, and Coastal Lives across the Strait of Malacca

The Chinese Tea Route: Methamphetamine, Maritime Smuggling, and Coastal Lives across the Strait of Malacca

Tabrani, Dedy
Ahmad, Kamaruzzaman Bustamam

Paperback

CriminologyGeneral Political ScienceTrue Crime

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ISBN13: 9798235759008
Publisher: Kba13 Insight
Pages: 508
Weight: 1.28
Height: 1.13 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

At dawn on the estuaries of Aceh's east coast the same scene recurs. A boat comes alongside, sacks are lowered onto the sand, and someone unties the knots. Inside lie packets of branded Chinese tea, neatly sealed as though lifted straight from a shop shelf, filled with crystal methamphetamine.

The Chinese Tea Route follows that packaging along one of the busiest methamphetamine corridors in the world, from the laboratories of Shan State, down the Thai peninsula and the west coast of Malaysia, across the Strait of Malacca and onto the coasts of Aceh and North Sumatra, and outward to retail markets at Indonesia's eastern edge. Dedy Tabrani and Kamaruzzaman Bustamam Ahmad read district court judgments from Aceh, North Sumatra and the Riau Islands not merely as legal documents but as ethnographic records, and set them alongside official records of enforcement agencies in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, reports of international organisations, and field enquiry at coastal landing points.

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