Drugs. Drugs Before They Were Criminalized
(Trocki, C. A. 1999). Explain that the criminalization
of narcotics is a prohibition on all forms of
narcotics-related activities starting from production,
extraction, trade and marketing activities. Since
1725 Opium is an illegal form of narcotics according
to the United States, while for allies of the Soviet
Union such as Burma, Vietnam, Nicaragua, and
Afghanistan the opium trade is a source of foreign
exchange. As a transnational crime, the narcotics
trade is very profitable, so the prohibition on the
circulation and trafficking of narcotics is increasingly
encouraging the occurrence of transnational illegal
drug trafficking.
According to the writings of Francisco E. Thoumi
in his article entitled The Impact of the Illegal Drug
Industry on Colombia (R. T Naylor, 1995). He found
that changes in the economy and politics globally
resulted in crimes in the border region. In 1990,
Colombian drug traffickers used ships, cargo planes to
send cocaine on the international market. The export
route is developed in extreme complex coordination
through air and sea routes to penetrate the transit
country. In 1990 the circulation of narcotics was
carried out with a multinational narcotics company
model structured in various countries complete with
subcontractors and freelancers as well as by way of
smuggling, marketing, money laundering. Therefore,
these organized transnational narcotics crimes work
unconditionally and are known by state governments
with high work risks, the threat faced is not only
high prices of narcotics but also must understand
the coordination and authority of the Government in
anticipating transnational crime.
Elfira’s writing regarding the existence of regional
institutions in dealing with narcotics crimes (Elfira
Febira. 2013). To conclude that the existence of
regional institutions is carried out by agreeing on
the cooperation of each member country through
coordination of handling and handling patterns
of each country in resolving narcotics problems
and making collective agreements especially in the
policies of each country that is integrated.
Buzan explained that security is a perception
formed by the state in defining a security issue.
Whereas Weaver added the need for securitization
on security issues. The dynamics of security are
seen from various sectors such as military, economic,
political, environmental and social. Current issues
in the social, political and military sectors are more
influenced by the complexity of security at the
regional level while economic issues at the global
level and environmental issues are summarized in
local and global security issues (Buzan et al., 1998;
Kramer et al., 2009; Federico, 1996). The concept
of security according to Buzan is seen as a complex
problem or known as a security complex. In general,
security complexes are defined as a set of states
whose major security perceptions and problems are
not related or resolved apart from another (Buzan
et al., 1998; Ma’sum, 1987).
The term ”transnational crime” was introduced
to explain the complex links that exist between
organized crime, white-collar crime, and corruption,
which are serious problems that arise as a result
of ”crime as a business”. Arrangement of crime
activities extends beyond national borders and has an
impact on violations of various countries’ laws, has
become the most dangerous characteristic of crime
groups that operate at the international level. In its
development, the form of crime termed has often been
associated with the context of globalization (which
is a representation of current social, economic and
cultural conditions). Therefore, frequent debates
are centered on the opportunity to commit various
crimes or the legitimate actions given by a world
that develops without borders, to a variety of
actors commonly defined as transnational organized
groups, transnational organizations, and transnational
networks.
According to Albanese, the growth of organized
crime in various countries cannot be separated
from its supporting factors. There are five
supporting factors including economic conditions,
government regulations, the effectiveness of law
enforcement, the level of demand for goods or
services, and the formation of new markets for
goods and services through social and technological
changes (http://www.asean.org/communities/asean
-political-security-community/item/
asean-declaration-on-transnational-crime-manila-
20-december-1997). Therefore, transnational crime
carried out in an organized manner is referred to as
transnational Organized Crime (TOC). In general,
transnational crime can be formulated as a form of
crime that ”provides goods or services illegally to
gain profit”. Transnational crime is a threat to the
national security of a country or a region, considering
that this crime is organized and oriented to power and
money.
Conceptually, narcotics comes from Greek, from
the word Narke, which means frozen, paralyzed,
and stupid (Alifia, 2008; Edwards and Gill, 2004),
whereas according to the definition of medical
Pharmacology, narcotics are drugs that can eliminate
(especially) pain originating from the area Visceral
and can cause stupor effects (dumbfound still
conscious but still need to be bullied) and addiction.
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