Is Modafinil legal in Aceh (Indonesia)?
Also known as: provigil
- Legal status
- Prescription/hard medicine under national law (obat keras); the Aceh qanun does not cover pharmaceuticals; NOT scheduled narkotika.
- Consequences if caught
- National medicine/customs penalties; no capital exposure (not a scheduled narcotic; qanun caning inapplicable).
- If prescribed or medical
- Carry the prescription.
- Documentation
- In Aceh, drugs fall under Indonesia's national Narcotics Law No. 35 of 2009 (Articles 111-127), which applies in the province; Aceh ADDITIONALLY applies the qanun jinayat (Islamic criminal bylaws) imposing caning for certain offences as a corporal-punishment overlay distinct from the national penal regime. Organized or large-scale trafficking of Category I narcotics is capital-eligible, the death penalty is NATIONAL (under Law 35/2009), NOT a separate Aceh statute, and Indonesia actively imposes drug death sentences. Possession and lower-level offences carry imprisonment from 4 years or court-ordered rehabilitation; the precise article and threshold are left to confirmation against the current law. This cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress, with the qanun framing corroborated in free text. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
- National law (not scheduled narkotika)
- unodc.org
- The power that moves Indonesia's narkotika lists is not established in the sources cited above, and no version of those lists was recorded when this cell was authored on 13 July 2026. The finding stated above is anchored to nothing later than that authoring date, and it does not rule out a later amendment made or commenced since.
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Court records
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