Jakarta, Oct. 25 -- Indonesia's House of Representatives (DPR) Deputy Speaker Sufmi Dasco Ahmad praised police for seizing 1.16 tons of ketamine aboard a vessel linked to a Malaysian company, saying the operation helped protect Indonesia's younger generation.

Dasco expressed concern over the recently uncovered case. He said the latest information indicated the drugs were carried aboard a vessel believed to belong to a Malaysia-based company.

"Indonesian police and the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) recently seized the MT Global 168, a vessel carrying about one ton of ketamine, in Belawan," Dasco said in a statement issued in Jakarta on Sunday.

A joint team from the National Police, BNN, and Customs and Excise intercepted the vessel of...