Legal status in Indonesia

Per-substance legal status for Indonesia, from sourced statutes where available. Legal information, not legal advice — drug laws change; confirm with the destination’s embassy or drug authority before you travel.

Last updated: 2026-07-14

1P-LSD

Legal status: Not confirmed — verify with Indonesia's BNN / BPOM / your embassy
Consequences if caught: This specific substance was not named by a reachable Indonesian source. Indonesia operates a zero-tolerance narcotics regime (Law No. 35 of 2009) with severe penalties — including the death penalty for trafficking above statutory weights — applied equally to foreigners.
If prescribed / medical: Not confirmed — verify with BPOM / your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Original prescription stating your name, the medication, dosage, and purpose; a doctor's letter; original packaging; declare on the customs form. Prescriptions for more than 14 days may not be honoured. Foreign origin or ignorance of the law is not a defence, and the zero-tolerance regime applies equally to foreigners.

Source · Updated 2026-07-14

2-FDCK

Legal status: Not confirmed — verify with Indonesia's BNN / BPOM / your embassy
Consequences if caught: This specific substance was not named by a reachable Indonesian source. Indonesia operates a zero-tolerance narcotics regime (Law No. 35 of 2009) with severe penalties — including the death penalty for trafficking above statutory weights — applied equally to foreigners.
If prescribed / medical: Not confirmed — verify with BPOM / your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Original prescription stating your name, the medication, dosage, and purpose; a doctor's letter; original packaging; declare on the customs form. Prescriptions for more than 14 days may not be honoured. Foreign origin or ignorance of the law is not a defence, and the zero-tolerance regime applies equally to foreigners.

Source · Updated 2026-07-14

25I-NBOMe

Legal status: 25I-NBOMe is a Narkotika Golongan I (Group I narcotic, no therapeutic use) under Law No. 35 of 2009 as extended by Ministry of Health regulation adding new psychoactive substances to the Golongan I list; it is individually named.
Consequences if caught: Group I offences are severe under Law No. 35/2009 - long imprisonment, and the most serious trafficking is capital-eligible.
If prescribed / medical: Golongan I substances have no permitted medical use and are not available on prescription.
Documentation: Law No. 35 of 2009 (Narcotics); Ministry of Health regulation on narcotics classification, Golongan I.

Source · Updated 2026-07-14

2C-B

Legal status: Not confirmed — verify with Indonesia's BNN / BPOM / your embassy
Consequences if caught: This specific substance was not named by a reachable Indonesian source. Indonesia operates a zero-tolerance narcotics regime (Law No. 35 of 2009) with severe penalties — including the death penalty for trafficking above statutory weights — applied equally to foreigners.
If prescribed / medical: Not confirmed — verify with BPOM / your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Original prescription stating your name, the medication, dosage, and purpose; a doctor's letter; original packaging; declare on the customs form. Prescriptions for more than 14 days may not be honoured. Foreign origin or ignorance of the law is not a defence, and the zero-tolerance regime applies equally to foreigners.

Source · Updated 2026-06-25

2C-E

Legal status: Not confirmed — verify with Indonesia's BNN / BPOM / your embassy
Consequences if caught: This specific substance was not named by a reachable Indonesian source. Indonesia operates a zero-tolerance narcotics regime (Law No. 35 of 2009) with severe penalties — including the death penalty for trafficking above statutory weights — applied equally to foreigners.
If prescribed / medical: Not confirmed — verify with BPOM / your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Original prescription stating your name, the medication, dosage, and purpose; a doctor's letter; original packaging; declare on the customs form. Prescriptions for more than 14 days may not be honoured. Foreign origin or ignorance of the law is not a defence, and the zero-tolerance regime applies equally to foreigners.

Source · Updated 2026-07-14

2C-I

Legal status: Not confirmed — verify with Indonesia's BNN / BPOM / your embassy
Consequences if caught: This specific substance was not named by a reachable Indonesian source. Indonesia operates a zero-tolerance narcotics regime (Law No. 35 of 2009) with severe penalties — including the death penalty for trafficking above statutory weights — applied equally to foreigners.
If prescribed / medical: Not confirmed — verify with BPOM / your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Original prescription stating your name, the medication, dosage, and purpose; a doctor's letter; original packaging; declare on the customs form. Prescriptions for more than 14 days may not be honoured. Foreign origin or ignorance of the law is not a defence, and the zero-tolerance regime applies equally to foreigners.

Source · Updated 2026-06-25

2C-T-7

Legal status: Not confirmed — verify with Indonesia's BNN / BPOM / your embassy
Consequences if caught: This specific substance was not named by a reachable Indonesian source. Indonesia operates a zero-tolerance narcotics regime (Law No. 35 of 2009) with severe penalties — including the death penalty for trafficking above statutory weights — applied equally to foreigners.
If prescribed / medical: Not confirmed — verify with BPOM / your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Original prescription stating your name, the medication, dosage, and purpose; a doctor's letter; original packaging; declare on the customs form. Prescriptions for more than 14 days may not be honoured. Foreign origin or ignorance of the law is not a defence, and the zero-tolerance regime applies equally to foreigners.

Source · Updated 2026-06-25

3-MMC

Legal status: 3-MMC (3-methylmethcathinone) is controlled as a synthetic cathinone: cathinones (e.g. 4-MMC/mephedrone, methcathinone) sit in Narkotika Golongan I under UU 35/2009 (governed by Permenkes updates), and 3-MMC is reached by that class; the specific 3-MMC Golongan I entry is left to confirmation.
Consequences if caught: Golongan I trafficking under UU 35/2009 is DEATH-ELIGIBLE — if 3-MMC is treated as a named Golongan I cathinone, trafficking carries capital exposure. Treat as EXTREME-risk.
If prescribed / medical: Golongan I: no recognised medical use and no lawful prescription route.
Documentation: No lawful personal-import route; extreme enforcement risk for a Golongan I narcotic.

Source · Updated 2026-07-14

4-AcO-DMT

Legal status: Not confirmed — verify with Indonesia's BNN / BPOM / your embassy
Consequences if caught: This specific substance was not named by a reachable Indonesian source. Indonesia operates a zero-tolerance narcotics regime (Law No. 35 of 2009) with severe penalties — including the death penalty for trafficking above statutory weights — applied equally to foreigners.
If prescribed / medical: Not confirmed — verify with BPOM / your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Original prescription stating your name, the medication, dosage, and purpose; a doctor's letter; original packaging; declare on the customs form. Prescriptions for more than 14 days may not be honoured. Foreign origin or ignorance of the law is not a defence, and the zero-tolerance regime applies equally to foreigners.

Source · Updated 2026-07-14

4-HO-MET

Legal status: Not confirmed — verify with Indonesia's BNN / BPOM / your embassy
Consequences if caught: This specific substance was not named by a reachable Indonesian source. Indonesia operates a zero-tolerance narcotics regime (Law No. 35 of 2009) with severe penalties — including the death penalty for trafficking above statutory weights — applied equally to foreigners.
If prescribed / medical: Not confirmed — verify with BPOM / your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Original prescription stating your name, the medication, dosage, and purpose; a doctor's letter; original packaging; declare on the customs form. Prescriptions for more than 14 days may not be honoured. Foreign origin or ignorance of the law is not a defence, and the zero-tolerance regime applies equally to foreigners.

Source · Updated 2026-07-14

5-MeO-DMT (Bufo / Toad)

Legal status: Not confirmed — verify with Indonesia's BNN / BPOM / your embassy
Consequences if caught: This specific substance was not named by a reachable Indonesian source. Indonesia operates a zero-tolerance narcotics regime (Law No. 35 of 2009) with severe penalties — including the death penalty for trafficking above statutory weights — applied equally to foreigners.
If prescribed / medical: Not confirmed — verify with BPOM / your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Original prescription stating your name, the medication, dosage, and purpose; a doctor's letter; original packaging; declare on the customs form. Prescriptions for more than 14 days may not be honoured. Foreign origin or ignorance of the law is not a defence, and the zero-tolerance regime applies equally to foreigners.

Source · Updated 2026-07-14

6-APB

Legal status: Not confirmed — verify with Indonesia's BNN / BPOM / your embassy
Consequences if caught: This specific substance was not named by a reachable Indonesian source. Indonesia operates a zero-tolerance narcotics regime (Law No. 35 of 2009) with severe penalties — including the death penalty for trafficking above statutory weights — applied equally to foreigners.
If prescribed / medical: Not confirmed — verify with BPOM / your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Original prescription stating your name, the medication, dosage, and purpose; a doctor's letter; original packaging; declare on the customs form. Prescriptions for more than 14 days may not be honoured. Foreign origin or ignorance of the law is not a defence, and the zero-tolerance regime applies equally to foreigners.

Source · Updated 2026-07-14

7-Hydroxymitragynine (7-OH)

Legal status: Neither 7-hydroxymitragynine nor kratom is scheduled as a narcotic in Indonesia: 7-OH, a kratom alkaloid, shares the plant's status as a legal, regulated trade commodity (Permendag 20/2024 and 21/2024); export rules set a minimum mitragynine concentration as a quality spec, not a control, and BPOM bars only use in medicines/supplements.
Consequences if caught: No narcotics penalty attaches to the alkaloid; kratom is a regulated legal commodity, not a scheduled drug.
If prescribed / medical: No BPOM-registered kratom or alkaloid medicine exists; use in medicines/supplements is barred, but the plant may be grown, processed and exported.
Documentation: No narcotics import controls apply; kratom is a lawful trade commodity subject to trade (not drug) regulation.

Source · Updated 2026-07-13

Adderall

Legal status: Adderall (mixed amphetamine salts) has no separate legal identity — it is regulated AS amphetamine: narkotika Golongan I ('Amfetamina') under Narcotics Law No. 35/2009.
Consequences if caught: Possession (art. 112) 4–12 years. Trafficking Golongan I non-plant >5 g is DEATH-PENALTY-ELIGIBLE (arts. 113/114) — discretionary. Amphetamine carries capital exposure.
If prescribed / medical: Prescription stimulant via strictly controlled medical channels; carrying it without a local permit/prescription risks arrest.
Documentation: Original prescription stating your name, the medication, dosage, and purpose; a doctor's letter; original packaging; declare on the customs form. Prescriptions for more than 14 days may not be honoured. Foreign origin or ignorance of the law is not a defence, and the zero-tolerance regime applies equally to foreigners.

Source · Updated 2026-07-13

Alcohol

Legal status: Legal but restricted (national) — alcohol (ethanol) is a licensed beverage, not a controlled drug; a 2015 trade regulation bans minimarket/convenience sales, restricting it to licensed outlets, hotels and bars, minimum age 21.
Consequences if caught: No national criminal penalty for adult consumption; unlicensed sale and breaches of the retail restriction carry administrative/criminal penalties.
If prescribed / medical: n/a — a beverage, not a medicine.
Documentation: Bought at licensed supermarkets, hotels and bars on proof of age; heavily taxed and not sold in convenience stores. (Aceh province diverges — see Aceh row.)

Source · Updated 2026-07-14

Amanita muscaria

Legal status: Not confirmed — verify with Indonesia's BNN / BPOM / your embassy
Consequences if caught: This specific substance was not named by a reachable Indonesian source. Indonesia operates a zero-tolerance narcotics regime (Law No. 35 of 2009) with severe penalties — including the death penalty for trafficking above statutory weights — applied equally to foreigners.
If prescribed / medical: Not confirmed — verify with BPOM / your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Original prescription stating your name, the medication, dosage, and purpose; a doctor's letter; original packaging; declare on the customs form. Prescriptions for more than 14 days may not be honoured. Foreign origin or ignorance of the law is not a defence, and the zero-tolerance regime applies equally to foreigners.

Source · Updated 2026-07-14

Amphetamine

Legal status: Narkotika Golongan I ('Amfetamina') under Narcotics Law No. 35/2009.
Consequences if caught: Possession (art. 112) 4–12 years. Trafficking Golongan I non-plant >5 g is DEATH-PENALTY-ELIGIBLE (arts. 113/114) — discretionary. Amphetamine carries capital exposure.
If prescribed / medical: Prescription stimulant via strictly controlled medical channels; carrying it without a local permit/prescription risks arrest.
Documentation: Original prescription stating your name, the medication, dosage, and purpose; a doctor's letter; original packaging; declare on the customs form. Prescriptions for more than 14 days may not be honoured. Foreign origin or ignorance of the law is not a defence, and the zero-tolerance regime applies equally to foreigners.

Source · Updated 2026-07-13

Amyl Nitrite

Legal status: Not confirmed — verify with Indonesia's BNN / BPOM / your embassy
Consequences if caught: This specific substance was not named by a reachable Indonesian source. Indonesia operates a zero-tolerance narcotics regime (Law No. 35 of 2009) with severe penalties — including the death penalty for trafficking above statutory weights — applied equally to foreigners.
If prescribed / medical: Not confirmed — verify with BPOM / your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Original prescription stating your name, the medication, dosage, and purpose; a doctor's letter; original packaging; declare on the customs form. Prescriptions for more than 14 days may not be honoured. Foreign origin or ignorance of the law is not a defence, and the zero-tolerance regime applies equally to foreigners.

Source · Updated 2026-07-14

Ayahuasca

Legal status: In Indonesia the ayahuasca brew is treated as DMT with no religious carve-out: N,N-dimethyltryptamine (Dimetiltriptamina) is a Golongan I narcotic under Narcotics Law No. 35 of 2009 with no permitted therapeutic use, so any DMT-containing preparation such as ayahuasca is a prohibited Golongan I substance.
Consequences if caught: Producing, importing, possessing or trafficking the ayahuasca brew is a Golongan I narcotics offence carrying severe penalties, up to the death penalty for large-scale trafficking; there is no religious-use exemption.
If prescribed / medical: Golongan I narcotics including DMT have no lawful medical or prescription use in Indonesia, so ayahuasca cannot be prescribed or dispensed.
Documentation: Law No. 35 of 2009 on Narcotics classifies DMT as a Golongan I substance in its annex; no exemption exists for the ayahuasca preparation.

Source · Updated 2026-07-14

Barbiturates

Legal status: Barbiturates are Psikotropika substances scheduled by compound under Law No. 5/1997 — the sedative-hypnotic barbiturates (secobarbital, pentobarbital, amobarbital) in Golongan III and phenobarbital/barbital in the lowest Golongan IV — transposing the 1971 Convention.
Consequences if caught: Unlawful possession without a prescription up to 5 years and/or Rp 100 million (Pasal 62). Indonesia's death penalty applies only to Narkotika Golongan I (heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, cannabis) under Law No. 35/2009 — barbiturates are not death-eligible.
If prescribed / medical: Phenobarbital is dispensed as a Golongan IV antiepileptic (a WHO Essential Medicine); the higher-tier sedative-hypnotic barbiturates are tightly controlled.
Documentation: Carry a prescription and original packaging; declare controlled medicines and confirm import rules with BPOM.

Source · Updated 2026-07-14

Benzodiazepines

Legal status: Psychotropic (Categories 2–4) — permitted with a valid prescription (Law No. 5 of 1997)
Consequences if caught: Non-prescribed possession is a psychotropic offence; the zero-tolerance regime applies.
If prescribed / medical: Permitted with a valid prescription; carry the prescription, doctor's letter, and original packaging; prescriptions for more than 14 days may not be honoured.
Documentation: Original prescription stating your name, the medication, dosage, and purpose; a doctor's letter; original packaging; declare on the customs form. Prescriptions for more than 14 days may not be honoured. Foreign origin or ignorance of the law is not a defence, and the zero-tolerance regime applies equally to foreigners.

Source · Updated 2026-06-25

Buprenorphine

Legal status: Buprenorphine is a Narkotika Golongan III substance under Law No. 35/2009 — a lighter tier than Golongan II methadone; Golongan III is not death-eligible, so it sits below the capital tier, confirmed.
Consequences if caught: Unlawful possession/supply is penalised under Law No. 35/2009, but the death penalty applies only to Golongan I (and trafficking of Golongan II above weight) — Golongan III buprenorphine is not death-eligible, confirmed.
If prescribed / medical: Dispensed as a Golongan III controlled prescription medicine (used for opioid substitution).
Documentation: Carry a prescription and original packaging; declare controlled medicines and confirm import rules with BPOM.

Source · Updated 2026-07-13

Caffeine

Legal status: Not confirmed — verify with Indonesia's BNN / BPOM / your embassy
Consequences if caught: This specific substance was not named by a reachable Indonesian source. Indonesia operates a zero-tolerance narcotics regime (Law No. 35 of 2009) with severe penalties — including the death penalty for trafficking above statutory weights — applied equally to foreigners.
If prescribed / medical: Not confirmed — verify with BPOM / your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Original prescription stating your name, the medication, dosage, and purpose; a doctor's letter; original packaging; declare on the customs form. Prescriptions for more than 14 days may not be honoured. Foreign origin or ignorance of the law is not a defence, and the zero-tolerance regime applies equally to foreigners.

Source · Updated 2026-07-14

Cannabis / THC

Legal status: Prohibited — Group I narcotic; cannabis, THC, and CBD (Law No. 35 of 2009)
Consequences if caught: Cannabis, THC, and CBD are Group I, fully prohibited regardless of a foreign prescription. Group I narcotics have no therapeutic use and are fully prohibited. Producing, importing, transferring, or selling more than 1 kg of cannabis or 5 g of methamphetamine/heroin can carry the death penalty (Art. 113). Possession of even small amounts of a Group I substance is punishable by 4–12 years' imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: No medical/prescription pathway — Group I has no therapeutic use; a foreign prescription is not a defence.
Documentation: None — Group I substances cannot be imported.

Source · Updated 2026-06-25

Cathinone

Legal status: Controlled — cathinone (katinona; khat's natural principal alkaloid) is a 1971 Convention SCHEDULE I psychotropic and is a Golongan I narcotic under Law 35/2009. Mechanism: 1971 Sch-I transposition, named. As the parent compound it is DISTINCT from the khat PLANT (Catha edulis leaf, not named and caught via its cathinone content) and from the synthetic cathinones (mephedrone etc., scheduled Golongan I by Permenkes) that derive from it; cathinone is the named Golongan-I alkaloid, cathine the milder metabolite (1971 Schedule III). It is CAUGHT BY THE CLASS language for capital exposure: trafficking/manufacture of Golongan I narcotics above statutory quantities (arts. 113-114) carries the death penalty.
Consequences if caught: Golongan I: possession and supply of the alkaloid are offences; large-quantity trafficking/manufacture is capital under arts. 113-114. Extreme risk.
If prescribed / medical: 1971 Schedule I / Golongan-I narcotic with no accepted medical use and no lawful prescription route for the isolated alkaloid.
Documentation: No licit personal-carry or import route; trafficking quantities of the alkaloid carry death exposure.

Source · Updated 2026-07-14

CBD

Legal status: CBD (cannabidiol) is a Narcotics Group I (Golongan I) substance — the strictest class — under Law No. 35 of 2009: cannabis and all its derivatives and resins are Group I with no CBD exemption and no THC threshold.
Consequences if caught: Personal-use possession carries up to 4 years and/or mandatory rehabilitation (Art. 127), while larger quantities (cannabis over 1 kg or more than 5 plants) reach 5-20 years, life or death (Arts 111/113); enforcement is zero-tolerance at airports.
If prescribed / medical: As a Group I substance, CBD is barred even from therapeutic use (Art. 8(1)) — only government-approved scientific use — with no Epidyolex/prescription scheme.
Documentation: No documentation legalises CBD — it is a Group I narcotic barred from medical use, and a foreign prescription does not permit entry.

Source · Updated 2026-07-14

Clonazepam

Legal status: Clonazepam is a Psikotropika Golongan IV substance (individually named) under Law No. 5/1997 — the lowest psychotropic tier.
Consequences if caught: Unlawful possession without a prescription up to 5 years and/or Rp 100 million (Pasal 62). Indonesia's death penalty applies only to Narkotika Golongan I (heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, cannabis) under Law No. 35/2009 — benzodiazepines are not death-eligible.
If prescribed / medical: Dispensed as a Golongan IV psychotropic prescription medicine.
Documentation: Carry a prescription and original packaging; declare controlled medicines and confirm import rules with BPOM.

Source · Updated 2026-07-13

Cocaine

Legal status: Prohibited — Group I narcotic, no therapeutic use (Law No. 35 of 2009)
Consequences if caught: Group I narcotics have no therapeutic use and are fully prohibited. Producing, importing, transferring, or selling more than 1 kg of cannabis or 5 g of methamphetamine/heroin can carry the death penalty (Art. 113). Possession of even small amounts of a Group I substance is punishable by 4–12 years' imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: No medical/prescription pathway — Group I has no therapeutic use; a foreign prescription is not a defence.
Documentation: None — Group I substances cannot be imported.

Source · Updated 2026-06-25

Codeine

Legal status: Codeine is a Narkotika Golongan III substance under Law No. 35/2009 (the lowest narcotic tier); Golongan III trafficking is not death-eligible, so codeine sits below the capital tier (death attaches to Golongan I/II above threshold, e.g. morphine above 5 g).
Consequences if caught: Unauthorised possession or supply draws imprisonment and fines under Law No. 35/2009; codeine is not death-eligible.
If prescribed / medical: Dispensed as a Golongan III controlled prescription medicine.
Documentation: Declare controlled medicines and confirm import rules with BPOM; carry a prescription in original packaging.

Source · Updated 2026-07-13

Crack Cocaine

Legal status: Crack is the freebase (base) form of cocaine and has no separate legal identity in Indonesia: it is controlled AS cocaine, a Group I (Golongan I) narcotic with no therapeutic use under Law No. 35 of 2009, whose schedule covers cocaine, its salts and preparations and thus reaches the base/freebase form. The law's capital trafficking provisions apply by weight of the Group I narcotic and carry over to crack, making organised/large-scale trafficking capital-eligible whether powder or base.
Consequences if caught: Possession, dealing and trafficking of crack (as cocaine) are criminal under Law 35/2009 (Arts 111-127); large-scale trafficking is capital-eligible, lesser offences draw long imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: As a Group I narcotic cocaine has no permitted medical use in Indonesia; the crack/freebase base has no medicinal preparation and cannot be prescribed.
Documentation: No prescription documentation exists for crack/freebase cocaine.

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Delta-8-THC

Legal status: Controlled — delta-8-THC (Δ8-THC) is caught as a Narkotika Golongan I substance under Law No. 35 of 2009, whose Group I list covers cannabis, THC and its tetrahydrocannabinol isomers; delta-8 is controlled as an isomer of THC. Distinct only in name from cannabis, both Golongan I. Golongan I trafficking is capital-eligible, but the death thresholds are weight-based, so the capital reach of a pure delta-8 isomer is left to confirmation.
Consequences if caught: Zero tolerance; Golongan I trafficking/production (Arts. 113–114) is death-eligible and Indonesia actively sentences traffickers to death.
If prescribed / medical: No recognised medical use; Golongan I bars medical use — no lawful prescription route.
Documentation: No lawful personal import; trafficking carries capital exposure.

Source · Updated 2026-07-14

Diazepam

Legal status: Diazepam is a Psikotropika Golongan IV substance (individually named) under Law No. 5/1997 — the lowest psychotropic tier.
Consequences if caught: Unlawful possession without a prescription up to 5 years and/or Rp 100 million (Pasal 62). Indonesia's death penalty applies only to Narkotika Golongan I (heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, cannabis) under Law No. 35/2009 — benzodiazepines are not death-eligible.
If prescribed / medical: Dispensed as a Golongan IV psychotropic prescription medicine.
Documentation: Carry a prescription and original packaging; declare controlled medicines and confirm import rules with BPOM.

Source · Updated 2026-07-13

DMT

Legal status: Prohibited — Group I narcotic, no therapeutic use (Law No. 35 of 2009)
Consequences if caught: Group I narcotics have no therapeutic use and are fully prohibited. Producing, importing, transferring, or selling more than 1 kg of cannabis or 5 g of methamphetamine/heroin can carry the death penalty (Art. 113). Possession of even small amounts of a Group I substance is punishable by 4–12 years' imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: No medical/prescription pathway — Group I has no therapeutic use; a foreign prescription is not a defence.
Documentation: None — Group I substances cannot be imported.

Source · Updated 2026-06-25

DOM

Legal status: DOM (STP) is a Narkotika Golongan I substance under Law No. 35 of 2009, Indonesia's transposition of DOM's individual Schedule I listing under the 1971 UN Convention (no therapeutic use permitted).
Consequences if caught: Possession, trafficking and cultivation are criminal offences under Law No. 35 of 2009, with severe penalties including the death penalty for large-scale trafficking.
If prescribed / medical: Golongan I: prohibited for therapy; not prescribable.
Documentation: Undang-Undang No. 35 Tahun 2009 tentang Narkotika, Golongan I.

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DXM

Legal status: Not confirmed — verify with Indonesia's BNN / BPOM / your embassy
Consequences if caught: This specific substance was not named by a reachable Indonesian source. Indonesia operates a zero-tolerance narcotics regime (Law No. 35 of 2009) with severe penalties — including the death penalty for trafficking above statutory weights — applied equally to foreigners.
If prescribed / medical: Not confirmed — verify with BPOM / your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Original prescription stating your name, the medication, dosage, and purpose; a doctor's letter; original packaging; declare on the customs form. Prescriptions for more than 14 days may not be honoured. Foreign origin or ignorance of the law is not a defence, and the zero-tolerance regime applies equally to foreigners.

Source · Updated 2026-07-14

Ephedrine

Legal status: Regulated as a chemical PRECURSOR (1988 UN Convention Table I — a methamphetamine precursor), NOT as a scheduled narcotic; a Prekursor Narkotika (Tabel I) under Law No. 35/2009 + PP 44/2010 (diversion offence = Art. 129). BPOM-regulated medicine.
Consequences if caught: No capital exposure — Art. 129 precursor offence is 4–20 years; the death penalty (arts. 113/114) attaches to Category-I NARCOTIC trafficking, not precursors.
If prescribed / medical: Also a pharmacy/prescription decongestant-bronchodilator medicine subject to sales limits; carry documentation for a personal supply.
Documentation: Original prescription stating your name, the medication, dosage, and purpose; a doctor's letter; original packaging; declare on the customs form. Prescriptions for more than 14 days may not be honoured. Foreign origin or ignorance of the law is not a defence, and the zero-tolerance regime applies equally to foreigners.

Source · Updated 2026-07-13

Etizolam

Legal status: Etizolam is a controlled Psikotropika Golongan II under Law No. 5/1997, scheduled by Permenkes No. 31 Tahun 2023 (etizolam is expressly named).
Consequences if caught: Golongan II psychotropic possession up to ~5 years plus fine (Law No. 5/1997). The death penalty attaches only to Narkotika Golongan I under Law No. 35/2009 — etizolam is a psychotropic and is not death-eligible.
If prescribed / medical: Controlled as a Golongan II psychotropic; handled under BPOM controlled-substance rules.
Documentation: Declare controlled medicines and confirm import rules with BPOM; carry any prescription in original packaging.

Source · Updated 2026-07-13

Fentanyl

Legal status: Controlled — Group II narcotic, therapeutic use with a prescription (Law No. 35 of 2009)
Consequences if caught: Fentanyl is a Group II narcotic — permitted for therapeutic use with a valid prescription; outside that it is a criminal narcotics offence under the zero-tolerance regime.
If prescribed / medical: Carry a valid prescription and doctor's letter; prescriptions for more than 14 days may not be honoured; declare on the customs form.
Documentation: Original prescription stating your name, the medication, dosage, and purpose; a doctor's letter; original packaging; declare on the customs form. Prescriptions for more than 14 days may not be honoured. Foreign origin or ignorance of the law is not a defence, and the zero-tolerance regime applies equally to foreigners.

Source · Updated 2026-06-25

Gabapentin

Legal status: Not confirmed — verify with Indonesia's BNN / BPOM / your embassy
Consequences if caught: This specific substance was not named by a reachable Indonesian source. Indonesia operates a zero-tolerance narcotics regime (Law No. 35 of 2009) with severe penalties — including the death penalty for trafficking above statutory weights — applied equally to foreigners.
If prescribed / medical: Not confirmed — verify with BPOM / your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Original prescription stating your name, the medication, dosage, and purpose; a doctor's letter; original packaging; declare on the customs form. Prescriptions for more than 14 days may not be honoured. Foreign origin or ignorance of the law is not a defence, and the zero-tolerance regime applies equally to foreigners.

Source · Updated 2026-07-14

GBL

Legal status: Not confirmed — verify with Indonesia's BNN / BPOM / your embassy
Consequences if caught: This specific substance was not named by a reachable Indonesian source. Indonesia operates a zero-tolerance narcotics regime (Law No. 35 of 2009) with severe penalties — including the death penalty for trafficking above statutory weights — applied equally to foreigners.
If prescribed / medical: Not confirmed — verify with BPOM / your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Original prescription stating your name, the medication, dosage, and purpose; a doctor's letter; original packaging; declare on the customs form. Prescriptions for more than 14 days may not be honoured. Foreign origin or ignorance of the law is not a defence, and the zero-tolerance regime applies equally to foreigners.

Source · Updated 2026-07-14

GHB

Legal status: Not confirmed — verify with Indonesia's BNN / BPOM / your embassy
Consequences if caught: This specific substance was not named by a reachable Indonesian source. Indonesia operates a zero-tolerance narcotics regime (Law No. 35 of 2009) with severe penalties — including the death penalty for trafficking above statutory weights — applied equally to foreigners.
If prescribed / medical: Not confirmed — verify with BPOM / your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Original prescription stating your name, the medication, dosage, and purpose; a doctor's letter; original packaging; declare on the customs form. Prescriptions for more than 14 days may not be honoured. Foreign origin or ignorance of the law is not a defence, and the zero-tolerance regime applies equally to foreigners.

Source · Updated 2026-06-25

Heroin

Legal status: Prohibited — Group I narcotic, no therapeutic use (Law No. 35 of 2009)
Consequences if caught: Group I narcotics have no therapeutic use and are fully prohibited. Producing, importing, transferring, or selling more than 1 kg of cannabis or 5 g of methamphetamine/heroin can carry the death penalty (Art. 113). Possession of even small amounts of a Group I substance is punishable by 4–12 years' imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: No medical/prescription pathway — Group I has no therapeutic use; a foreign prescription is not a defence.
Documentation: None — Group I substances cannot be imported.

Source · Updated 2026-06-25

HHC

Legal status: Not confirmed — verify with Indonesia's BNN / BPOM / your embassy
Consequences if caught: This specific substance was not named by a reachable Indonesian source. Indonesia operates a zero-tolerance narcotics regime (Law No. 35 of 2009) with severe penalties — including the death penalty for trafficking above statutory weights — applied equally to foreigners.
If prescribed / medical: Not confirmed — verify with BPOM / your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Original prescription stating your name, the medication, dosage, and purpose; a doctor's letter; original packaging; declare on the customs form. Prescriptions for more than 14 days may not be honoured. Foreign origin or ignorance of the law is not a defence, and the zero-tolerance regime applies equally to foreigners.

Source · Updated 2026-07-14

Hydrocodone

Legal status: Hydrocodone is a Narkotika Golongan II substance under Narcotics Law No. 35/2009; though not marketed in Indonesia it is scheduled in the strong-opioid tier alongside morphine, and Golongan II trafficking is death-eligible above 5 g (Arts. 118(2)/119(2)).
Consequences if caught: Unauthorised trafficking of a Golongan II narcotic above 5 g is death-eligible (Arts. 118(2)/119(2)); lesser possession or supply draws long imprisonment and fines.
If prescribed / medical: No marketed Indonesian hydrocodone product; a Golongan II narcotic is dispensed only under strict narcotic control.
Documentation: Declare controlled medicines and confirm import rules with BPOM; carry any prescription in original packaging.

Source · Updated 2026-07-13

Ketamine

Legal status: Regulated as a controlled medicine ('Obat-obatan Tertentu' / certain-medicines under BPOM regulation) — NOT a narcotic (narkotika) under Law No. 35/2009; a proposal to reclassify it as psikotropika had not yet been enacted as of confirmation.
Consequences if caught: Illegal distribution or possession is handled under health/pharmacy law (Law 36/2009) with imprisonment and fines; because ketamine is outside the Golongan I narcotics list, the capital penalty under Law 35/2009 does NOT apply to it.
If prescribed / medical: Available as a controlled medicine through licensed medical channels.
Documentation: Original prescription stating your name, the medication, dosage, and purpose; a doctor's letter; original packaging; declare on the customs form. Prescriptions for more than 14 days may not be honoured. Foreign origin or ignorance of the law is not a defence, and the zero-tolerance regime applies equally to foreigners.

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Khat

Legal status: Controlled. ALKALOID NAMED: cathinone (katinona) is a Golongan I narcotic under Law 35/2009; the Catha edulis plant is not named. Mechanism: NAMED (alkaloid); plant grey. Golongan-I class language allows capital trafficking penalties (Arts 113/114, non-plant form >5g), but bulky low-potency khat leaf realistically sits below any capital threshold — no realistic capital exposure.
Consequences if caught: High risk of arrest as a Golongan-I narcotic; capital is only conceivable at implausible bulk, so khat is a serious non-capital offence in practice.
If prescribed / medical: Khat is traditional plant material with no recognised medical use and no lawful prescription route.
Documentation: No lawful personal-import route; leaf caught via its Golongan-I cathinone content.

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Kratom

Legal status: Kratom (Mitragyna speciosa) is not a narcotic in Indonesia — it is a lawful, recognised trade commodity that may be grown, processed and exported (Permendag 20/2024 and 21/2024, in force 29 September 2024); BNN's 2022 push to place it in Narkotika Golongan I was not adopted. Neither mitragynine nor 7-hydroxymitragynine is scheduled; BPOM only bars kratom's use in medicines and supplements.
Consequences if caught: No narcotics penalty — kratom is a regulated commodity, not a scheduled drug; offences arise only from trade-regulation or BPOM medicinal/supplement breaches, not from possession of the plant.
If prescribed / medical: No lawful medicinal or supplement use — BPOM bars kratom from medicines and dietary supplements, though the plant itself is a legal commodity.
Documentation: Kratom is a legal trade commodity; export is governed by Ministry of Trade rules (Permendag 20/21-2024), and a minimum mitragynine concentration is set as a quality (not control) spec.

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Lorazepam

Legal status: Lorazepam is a Psikotropika Golongan IV substance (individually named) under Law No. 5/1997 — the lowest psychotropic tier.
Consequences if caught: Unlawful possession without a prescription up to 5 years and/or Rp 100 million (Pasal 62). Indonesia's death penalty applies only to Narkotika Golongan I (heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, cannabis) under Law No. 35/2009 — benzodiazepines are not death-eligible.
If prescribed / medical: Dispensed as a Golongan IV psychotropic prescription medicine.
Documentation: Carry a prescription and original packaging; declare controlled medicines and confirm import rules with BPOM.

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LSA (Morning Glory)

Legal status: Not confirmed — verify with Indonesia's BNN / BPOM / your embassy
Consequences if caught: This specific substance was not named by a reachable Indonesian source. Indonesia operates a zero-tolerance narcotics regime (Law No. 35 of 2009) with severe penalties — including the death penalty for trafficking above statutory weights — applied equally to foreigners.
If prescribed / medical: Not confirmed — verify with BPOM / your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Original prescription stating your name, the medication, dosage, and purpose; a doctor's letter; original packaging; declare on the customs form. Prescriptions for more than 14 days may not be honoured. Foreign origin or ignorance of the law is not a defence, and the zero-tolerance regime applies equally to foreigners.

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LSD

Legal status: Prohibited — Group I narcotic, no therapeutic use (Law No. 35 of 2009)
Consequences if caught: Group I narcotics have no therapeutic use and are fully prohibited. Producing, importing, transferring, or selling more than 1 kg of cannabis or 5 g of methamphetamine/heroin can carry the death penalty (Art. 113). Possession of even small amounts of a Group I substance is punishable by 4–12 years' imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: No medical/prescription pathway — Group I has no therapeutic use; a foreign prescription is not a defence.
Documentation: None — Group I substances cannot be imported.

Source · Updated 2026-06-25

MDA

Legal status: Controlled — MDA is a Golongan I narcotic under Law (UU) 35/2009 (Lampiran I, as an enumerated MDMA-class amphetamine derivative), updated by Permenkes. NAMED mechanism. CAPITAL: trafficking/production of Golongan I narcotics is death-eligible (UU 35/2009 arts. 113-114/118), actively imposed for ecstasy-class ATS.
Consequences if caught: Golongan I: trafficking death-eligible; possession multi-year imprisonment; zero tolerance.
If prescribed / medical: Golongan I narcotic with no recognised medical use; no lawful prescription route.
Documentation: No lawful personal import; trafficking amounts are death-eligible.

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MDMA

Legal status: Prohibited — Group I narcotic, no therapeutic use (Law No. 35 of 2009)
Consequences if caught: Group I narcotics have no therapeutic use and are fully prohibited. Producing, importing, transferring, or selling more than 1 kg of cannabis or 5 g of methamphetamine/heroin can carry the death penalty (Art. 113). Possession of even small amounts of a Group I substance is punishable by 4–12 years' imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: No medical/prescription pathway — Group I has no therapeutic use; a foreign prescription is not a defence.
Documentation: None — Group I substances cannot be imported.

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MDPV

Legal status: Controlled. MDPV is listed by name as Narkotika Golongan I via Permenkes No. 2 Tahun 2017. It is capital-exposed: under Law 35/2009 arts. 113/114, production, import or trafficking of non-plant Golongan I narcotics exceeding 5 grams is death-eligible, and MDPV is Golongan I.
Consequences if caught: Illegal as Golongan I; trafficking above 5 grams is death-eligible, with lesser quantities carrying long imprisonment. Do NOT carry.
If prescribed / medical: MDPV has no recognised medical use and no lawful prescription route in Indonesia (Golongan I bars medical use).
Documentation: No lawful personal-import route for a Golongan I narcotic; trafficking is death-eligible, do not carry.

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Memantine

Legal status: Not confirmed — verify with Indonesia's BNN / BPOM / your embassy
Consequences if caught: This specific substance was not named by a reachable Indonesian source. Indonesia operates a zero-tolerance narcotics regime (Law No. 35 of 2009) with severe penalties — including the death penalty for trafficking above statutory weights — applied equally to foreigners.
If prescribed / medical: Not confirmed — verify with BPOM / your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Original prescription stating your name, the medication, dosage, and purpose; a doctor's letter; original packaging; declare on the customs form. Prescriptions for more than 14 days may not be honoured. Foreign origin or ignorance of the law is not a defence, and the zero-tolerance regime applies equally to foreigners.

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Mephedrone (4-MMC)

Legal status: Controlled — NAMED. Mephedrone is scheduled as Narkotika Golongan I (added by Ministry of Health Permenkes to the UU 35/2009 narcotics annex). It is CAUGHT BY THE CLASS language for capital exposure: trafficking/manufacture of Golongan I narcotics above statutory quantities (arts. 113–114) carries the death penalty.
Consequences if caught: Golongan I: possession and supply offences; large-quantity trafficking/manufacture is capital under arts. 113–114. Extreme risk.
If prescribed / medical: Golongan I narcotic with no recognised medical use and no lawful prescription route.
Documentation: No licit personal-carry or import route for a Golongan I narcotic; trafficking quantities carry death exposure.

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Mescaline

Legal status: Prohibited — Group I narcotic, no therapeutic use (Law No. 35 of 2009)
Consequences if caught: Group I narcotics have no therapeutic use and are fully prohibited. Producing, importing, transferring, or selling more than 1 kg of cannabis or 5 g of methamphetamine/heroin can carry the death penalty (Art. 113). Possession of even small amounts of a Group I substance is punishable by 4–12 years' imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: No medical/prescription pathway — Group I has no therapeutic use; a foreign prescription is not a defence.
Documentation: None — Group I substances cannot be imported.

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Methadone

Legal status: Methadone is a controlled narcotic (Narkotika Golongan II) under Law No. 35/2009 — death-eligible for trafficking above 5 g (Arts. 118(2)/119(2)), the same threshold that applies to morphine; confirmed.
Consequences if caught: Unlawful possession or supply draws imprisonment; trafficking of a Golongan II narcotic above 5 g is death-eligible.
If prescribed / medical: Prescribed for methadone-maintenance OST as a controlled Golongan II narcotic.
Documentation: Carry a prescription and original packaging; declare controlled medicines and confirm import rules with BPOM.

Source · Updated 2026-07-13

Methamphetamine

Legal status: Prohibited — Category 1 narcotic, illegal even medically (Law No. 35 of 2009)
Consequences if caught: Amphetamine and methamphetamine are reclassified as Category 1 narcotics — illegal even for medical use. Possession (e.g. Adderall) carries a minimum of 4 years' imprisonment and import a minimum of 5 years. Group I narcotics have no therapeutic use and are fully prohibited. Producing, importing, transferring, or selling more than 1 kg of cannabis or 5 g of methamphetamine/heroin can carry the death penalty (Art. 113). Possession of even small amounts of a Group I substance is punishable by 4–12 years' imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: No medical/prescription pathway — illegal even medically; a foreign prescription is not a defence.
Documentation: None — cannot be imported, even medically.

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Methaqualone (Quaaludes)

Legal status: Methaqualone (metakualon) is a Psikotropika Golongan II under Law No. 5 of 1997 on Psychotropics — Indonesia controls it under the psychotropics statute, NOT the Narcotics Law No. 35/2009; this is the named transposition of its 1971 Convention Schedule II status, though methaqualone has no marketed medical use despite the category's 'therapeutic' label.
Consequences if caught: Unlawful production, trafficking or possession is penalised under Law No. 5/1997 with multi-year imprisonment and fines; Indonesia's wider drug enforcement is severe, though the death penalty attaches to Narcotics-Law Golongan I trafficking rather than to psychotropics like methaqualone.
If prescribed / medical: No recognised medical use / withdrawn — methaqualone is not marketed as a medicine in Indonesia.
Documentation: No medical or traveller route; there is no lawful prescription supply.

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Methylone

Legal status: Controlled — methylone is a Narkotika Golongan I substance under Law No. 35/2009 (reinforced by Permenkes updates listing synthetic cathinones); originally reached by analogical interpretation as a cathinone/methcathinone derivative, later NAMED via Permenkes NPS additions. Capital-ELIGIBLE.
Consequences if caught: Zero tolerance. Golongan I trafficking/production (arts. 113–114) is death-eligible; Indonesia actively sentences drug traffickers to death; methylone falls within that class.
If prescribed / medical: No recognised medical use; Golongan I bars medical use — no lawful prescription route.
Documentation: No lawful personal import; trafficking carries capital exposure.

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Methylphenidate

Legal status: Psikotropika Golongan II ('Metilfenidat') under the Psychotropics Law No. 5/1997 — legally available by prescription; NOT Narkotika Golongan I (that is amphetamine).
Consequences if caught: Illicit dealing is penalised under the Psychotropics Law; no capital exposure (the death penalty applies to Narkotika Golongan I, which methylphenidate is not).
If prescribed / medical: Prescription ADHD/narcolepsy medicine (e.g. Ritalin/Concerta) via controlled channels; carry the original prescription and any required import permit.

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Mitragynine

Legal status: Neither mitragynine nor kratom is scheduled as a narcotic in Indonesia: mitragynine, the principal alkaloid of kratom, shares the plant's status as a legal, regulated trade commodity (Permendag 20/2024 and 21/2024, in force 29 Sep 2024) — BNN's 2022 push for Schedule I was not adopted; BPOM bars use only in medicines/supplements.
Consequences if caught: No narcotics penalty attaches to the alkaloid; kratom is a regulated legal commodity, not a scheduled drug.
If prescribed / medical: No BPOM-registered kratom or alkaloid medicine exists; use in medicines/supplements is barred, but the plant may be grown, processed and exported.
Documentation: No narcotics import controls apply; kratom is a lawful trade commodity subject to trade (not drug) regulation.

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Modafinil

Legal status: Prescription/hard medicine (obat keras) — NOT scheduled narkotika (Law 35/2009) or psikotropika (Law 5/1997).
Consequences if caught: Import without a permit is an unregistered-medicine/customs offence; no narcotics-trafficking (capital) exposure.
If prescribed / medical: Carry the prescription; import needs a BPOM permit.
Documentation: Original prescription stating your name, the medication, dosage, and purpose; a doctor's letter; original packaging; declare on the customs form. Prescriptions for more than 14 days may not be honoured. Foreign origin or ignorance of the law is not a defence, and the zero-tolerance regime applies equally to foreigners.

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Morphine

Legal status: Morphine is a controlled narcotic (Narkotika Golongan II) under Law No. 35/2009 and is death-eligible: trafficking more than 5 g of morphine is capital under Articles 118(2)/119(2).
Consequences if caught: Unlawful possession draws multi-year imprisonment; trafficking above 5 g of morphine is death-eligible under Articles 118(2)/119(2).
If prescribed / medical: Available on prescription as a Golongan II narcotic for severe and cancer pain under BPOM controlled-drug rules.
Documentation: Carry a prescription and original packaging, declare controlled narcotics, and confirm import rules with BPOM before travel.

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MXE

Legal status: Not confirmed — verify with Indonesia's BNN / BPOM / your embassy
Consequences if caught: This specific substance was not named by a reachable Indonesian source. Indonesia operates a zero-tolerance narcotics regime (Law No. 35 of 2009) with severe penalties — including the death penalty for trafficking above statutory weights — applied equally to foreigners.
If prescribed / medical: Not confirmed — verify with BPOM / your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Original prescription stating your name, the medication, dosage, and purpose; a doctor's letter; original packaging; declare on the customs form. Prescriptions for more than 14 days may not be honoured. Foreign origin or ignorance of the law is not a defence, and the zero-tolerance regime applies equally to foreigners.

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Nicotine

Legal status: Not confirmed — verify with Indonesia's BNN / BPOM / your embassy
Consequences if caught: This specific substance was not named by a reachable Indonesian source. Indonesia operates a zero-tolerance narcotics regime (Law No. 35 of 2009) with severe penalties — including the death penalty for trafficking above statutory weights — applied equally to foreigners.
If prescribed / medical: Not confirmed — verify with BPOM / your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Original prescription stating your name, the medication, dosage, and purpose; a doctor's letter; original packaging; declare on the customs form. Prescriptions for more than 14 days may not be honoured. Foreign origin or ignorance of the law is not a defence, and the zero-tolerance regime applies equally to foreigners.

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Nitrous Oxide

Legal status: Not confirmed — verify with Indonesia's BNN / BPOM / your embassy
Consequences if caught: This specific substance was not named by a reachable Indonesian source. Indonesia operates a zero-tolerance narcotics regime (Law No. 35 of 2009) with severe penalties — including the death penalty for trafficking above statutory weights — applied equally to foreigners.
If prescribed / medical: Not confirmed — verify with BPOM / your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Original prescription stating your name, the medication, dosage, and purpose; a doctor's letter; original packaging; declare on the customs form. Prescriptions for more than 14 days may not be honoured. Foreign origin or ignorance of the law is not a defence, and the zero-tolerance regime applies equally to foreigners.

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Oxycodone

Legal status: Oxycodone is a Narkotika Golongan II substance under Narcotics Law No. 35/2009 — a controlled strong opioid that is death-eligible: Golongan II trafficking is capital above 5 g (non-plant weight) under Arts. 118(2)/119(2).
Consequences if caught: Unlawful possession or supply draws multi-year imprisonment; trafficking of a Golongan II narcotic above 5 g is death-eligible under Arts. 118(2)/119(2) of Law No. 35/2009.
If prescribed / medical: Dispensed as a Golongan II narcotic on a controlled prescription; import is tightly regulated by BPOM.
Documentation: Carry a prescription and original packaging and declare controlled medicines; confirm import rules with BPOM before travel.

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PCP

Legal status: Prohibited — Group I narcotic, no therapeutic use (Law No. 35 of 2009)
Consequences if caught: Group I narcotics have no therapeutic use and are fully prohibited. Producing, importing, transferring, or selling more than 1 kg of cannabis or 5 g of methamphetamine/heroin can carry the death penalty (Art. 113). Possession of even small amounts of a Group I substance is punishable by 4–12 years' imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: No medical/prescription pathway — Group I has no therapeutic use; a foreign prescription is not a defence.
Documentation: None — Group I substances cannot be imported.

Source · Updated 2026-06-25

Peyote

Legal status: Not confirmed — verify with Indonesia's BNN / BPOM / your embassy
Consequences if caught: Mescaline is a named Group I narcotic; peyote/Lophophora williamsii itself was not separately named by a reachable source. Indonesia operates a zero-tolerance narcotics regime (Law No. 35 of 2009) with severe penalties — including the death penalty for trafficking above statutory weights — applied equally to foreigners.
If prescribed / medical: Not confirmed — verify with BPOM / your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Original prescription stating your name, the medication, dosage, and purpose; a doctor's letter; original packaging; declare on the customs form. Prescriptions for more than 14 days may not be honoured. Foreign origin or ignorance of the law is not a defence, and the zero-tolerance regime applies equally to foreigners.

Source · Updated 2026-06-25

Phenibut

Legal status: Not confirmed — verify with Indonesia's BNN / BPOM / your embassy
Consequences if caught: This specific substance was not named by a reachable Indonesian source. Indonesia operates a zero-tolerance narcotics regime (Law No. 35 of 2009) with severe penalties — including the death penalty for trafficking above statutory weights — applied equally to foreigners.
If prescribed / medical: Not confirmed — verify with BPOM / your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Original prescription stating your name, the medication, dosage, and purpose; a doctor's letter; original packaging; declare on the customs form. Prescriptions for more than 14 days may not be honoured. Foreign origin or ignorance of the law is not a defence, and the zero-tolerance regime applies equally to foreigners.

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Pink Cocaine / Tusi

Legal status: Pink cocaine (tusi) is not scheduled as such; it is a variable mixture (typically ketamine + MDMA) prosecuted through its constituents — Indonesia lists MDMA as a Golongan I (Category I) narcotic with no therapeutic use under Narcotics Law No. 35 of 2009 while ketamine is a non-narcotic controlled medicine, and the law reaches any preparation containing a narcotic. Because the blend varies batch to batch, exposure follows the most-severely-controlled component, so an MDMA-containing tusi sample carries Golongan I capital exposure.
Consequences if caught: An MDMA-positive mixture is a Category I narcotics offence where large-scale trafficking is death-eligible under Law 35/2009; a ketamine-only mixture is a controlled-medicine offence carrying lesser penalties.
If prescribed / medical: No lawful supply of the mixture; ketamine is a controlled medicine, whereas MDMA is a Golongan I narcotic with no therapeutic use.
Documentation: Sold as a party powder of unknown makeup; because the blend varies batch to batch, buyers cannot know whether death-eligible MDMA is present, so capital-level legal exposure is unknowable at purchase.

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Poppers

Legal status: Not confirmed — verify with Indonesia's BNN / BPOM / your embassy
Consequences if caught: This specific substance was not named by a reachable Indonesian source. Indonesia operates a zero-tolerance narcotics regime (Law No. 35 of 2009) with severe penalties — including the death penalty for trafficking above statutory weights — applied equally to foreigners.
If prescribed / medical: Not confirmed — verify with BPOM / your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Original prescription stating your name, the medication, dosage, and purpose; a doctor's letter; original packaging; declare on the customs form. Prescriptions for more than 14 days may not be honoured. Foreign origin or ignorance of the law is not a defence, and the zero-tolerance regime applies equally to foreigners.

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Pregabalin

Legal status: Pregabalin is a prescription-only 'hard drug' (Obat Keras) in Indonesia and is NOT a narcotic (Law 35/2009) or psychotropic — so it sits outside the golongan lists that carry capital penalties; it is a prescription medicine subject to BPOM monitoring rather than a controlled narcotic.
Consequences if caught: Distribution outside the prescription/BPOM framework is penalised under the medicines regime; pregabalin is not death-eligible.
If prescribed / medical: Dispensed as a prescription-only hard drug (Obat Keras).
Documentation: Bring a personal supply with a prescription and doctor's letter and declare controlled medicines on entry.

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Psilocybin

Legal status: Not confirmed — verify with Indonesia's BNN / BPOM / your embassy
Consequences if caught: This specific substance was not named by a reachable Indonesian source. Indonesia operates a zero-tolerance narcotics regime (Law No. 35 of 2009) with severe penalties — including the death penalty for trafficking above statutory weights — applied equally to foreigners.
If prescribed / medical: Not confirmed — verify with BPOM / your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Original prescription stating your name, the medication, dosage, and purpose; a doctor's letter; original packaging; declare on the customs form. Prescriptions for more than 14 days may not be honoured. Foreign origin or ignorance of the law is not a defence, and the zero-tolerance regime applies equally to foreigners.

Source · Updated 2026-06-25

Quetiapine

Legal status: Not confirmed — verify with Indonesia's BNN / BPOM / your embassy
Consequences if caught: This specific substance was not named by a reachable Indonesian source. Indonesia operates a zero-tolerance narcotics regime (Law No. 35 of 2009) with severe penalties — including the death penalty for trafficking above statutory weights — applied equally to foreigners.
If prescribed / medical: Not confirmed — verify with BPOM / your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Original prescription stating your name, the medication, dosage, and purpose; a doctor's letter; original packaging; declare on the customs form. Prescriptions for more than 14 days may not be honoured. Foreign origin or ignorance of the law is not a defence, and the zero-tolerance regime applies equally to foreigners.

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Salvia divinorum

Legal status: Not confirmed — verify with Indonesia's BNN / BPOM / your embassy
Consequences if caught: This specific substance was not named by a reachable Indonesian source. Indonesia operates a zero-tolerance narcotics regime (Law No. 35 of 2009) with severe penalties — including the death penalty for trafficking above statutory weights — applied equally to foreigners.
If prescribed / medical: Not confirmed — verify with BPOM / your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Original prescription stating your name, the medication, dosage, and purpose; a doctor's letter; original packaging; declare on the customs form. Prescriptions for more than 14 days may not be honoured. Foreign origin or ignorance of the law is not a defence, and the zero-tolerance regime applies equally to foreigners.

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Scopolamine (Devil's Breath)

Legal status: Not confirmed — verify with Indonesia's BNN / BPOM / your embassy
Consequences if caught: This specific substance was not named by a reachable Indonesian source. Indonesia operates a zero-tolerance narcotics regime (Law No. 35 of 2009) with severe penalties — including the death penalty for trafficking above statutory weights — applied equally to foreigners.
If prescribed / medical: Not confirmed — verify with BPOM / your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Original prescription stating your name, the medication, dosage, and purpose; a doctor's letter; original packaging; declare on the customs form. Prescriptions for more than 14 days may not be honoured. Foreign origin or ignorance of the law is not a defence, and the zero-tolerance regime applies equally to foreigners.

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Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2 / Spice)

Legal status: Controlled as Narkotika Golongan I. Synthetic cannabinoids (e.g. JWH-018, XLR-11, and a 2020 batch adding MDMB-FUBINACA, 4F-MDMB-BINACA, 5F-MN-24 and others) are listed by name as Golongan I via Ministry of Health regulations under Law 35/2009. They are capital-exposed: under Law 35/2009 arts. 113/114, producing, importing or trafficking non-plant Golongan I narcotics above 5 grams is death-eligible.
Consequences if caught: Illegal as Golongan I; trafficking above 5 grams is death-eligible, with lesser quantities carrying long imprisonment. Do NOT carry.
If prescribed / medical: These synthetic cannabinoids have no recognised medical use and no lawful prescription route in Indonesia (Golongan I bars medical use).
Documentation: No lawful personal-import route for Golongan I synthetic cannabinoids; trafficking is death-eligible, do not carry.

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THC-P

Legal status: Not confirmed — verify with Indonesia's BNN / BPOM / your embassy
Consequences if caught: This specific substance was not named by a reachable Indonesian source. Indonesia operates a zero-tolerance narcotics regime (Law No. 35 of 2009) with severe penalties — including the death penalty for trafficking above statutory weights — applied equally to foreigners.
If prescribed / medical: Not confirmed — verify with BPOM / your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Original prescription stating your name, the medication, dosage, and purpose; a doctor's letter; original packaging; declare on the customs form. Prescriptions for more than 14 days may not be honoured. Foreign origin or ignorance of the law is not a defence, and the zero-tolerance regime applies equally to foreigners.

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Tobacco

Legal status: Not confirmed — verify with Indonesia's BNN / BPOM / your embassy
Consequences if caught: This specific substance was not named by a reachable Indonesian source. Indonesia operates a zero-tolerance narcotics regime (Law No. 35 of 2009) with severe penalties — including the death penalty for trafficking above statutory weights — applied equally to foreigners.
If prescribed / medical: Not confirmed — verify with BPOM / your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Original prescription stating your name, the medication, dosage, and purpose; a doctor's letter; original packaging; declare on the customs form. Prescriptions for more than 14 days may not be honoured. Foreign origin or ignorance of the law is not a defence, and the zero-tolerance regime applies equally to foreigners.

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Tramadol

Legal status: Tramadol is regulated as an Obat-Obat Tertentu (OOT) under BPOM Regulation 10/2019 and as a prescription-only 'hard drug' (Obat Keras); it is NOT a narcotic (Law 35/2009) or psychotropic, so it sits outside the golongan lists that carry capital penalties.
Consequences if caught: Distribution outside the OOT/prescription regime is penalised under the BPOM framework; tramadol is not death-eligible.
If prescribed / medical: Dispensed as a prescription-only OOT medicine.
Documentation: Bring a personal supply with a prescription and doctor's letter (unlike narcotics, this is generally allowed) and declare controlled medicines.

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Xanax (Alprazolam)

Legal status: Alprazolam is a Psikotropika Golongan IV substance (individually named) under Law No. 5/1997 — the lowest psychotropic tier.
Consequences if caught: Unlawful possession without a prescription up to 5 years and/or Rp 100 million (Pasal 62). Indonesia's death penalty applies only to Narkotika Golongan I (heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, cannabis) under Law No. 35/2009 — benzodiazepines are not death-eligible.
If prescribed / medical: Dispensed as a Golongan IV psychotropic prescription medicine.
Documentation: Carry a prescription and original packaging; declare controlled medicines and confirm import rules with BPOM.

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Xylazine

Legal status: Not confirmed — verify with Indonesia's BNN / BPOM / your embassy
Consequences if caught: This specific substance was not named by a reachable Indonesian source. Indonesia operates a zero-tolerance narcotics regime (Law No. 35 of 2009) with severe penalties — including the death penalty for trafficking above statutory weights — applied equally to foreigners.
If prescribed / medical: Not confirmed — verify with BPOM / your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Original prescription stating your name, the medication, dosage, and purpose; a doctor's letter; original packaging; declare on the customs form. Prescriptions for more than 14 days may not be honoured. Foreign origin or ignorance of the law is not a defence, and the zero-tolerance regime applies equally to foreigners.

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Zolpidem

Legal status: Zolpidem is a controlled psychotropic prescription hypnotic in Indonesia (psikotropika), transposing its 1971 Convention Schedule IV status; sleeping medicines of this class are dispensed only on prescription and are tightly controlled.
Consequences if caught: Unauthorised import or supply of this scheduled psychotropic is an offence under Indonesia's psychotropics/narcotics laws, which carry severe penalties; travellers have been caught bringing in sleeping pills without authorisation.
If prescribed / medical: Zolpidem is prescribed short-term for insomnia as a controlled psychotropic hypnotic.
Documentation: A traveller should carry prescribed zolpidem with a prescription/medical certificate and may need import authorisation; unauthorised carriage of prescription sedatives is treated harshly.

Source · Updated 2026-07-14

Drug laws and enforcement change and vary by country. This is not legal advice. Always confirm with the destination’s embassy or official drug authority before traveling — penalties can be severe, including imprisonment.

Before you travel

Verify current rules with the destination country’s official drug authorityand your own country’s embassy before traveling. Find the destination’s U.S. embassy & official country guidance →
Non-U.S. travelers: check your own government’s travel advisory and embassy.

If you’re detained or arrested abroad

Contact your own country’s embassy or consulatein the destination immediately — notthe destination’s authorities. U.S. citizens: contact the nearest U.S. embassy/consulate and the U.S. State Department at +1-202-501-4444 (from abroad). If a U.S. citizen is arrested or detained abroad →

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