Indonesian intravenous drug users total 248,000

Mboi said the problem became worse because they did not care about the danger of being infected with the HIV/AIDS virus. The Ministry of Health`s survey results in 2002 indicated that they did not care about the threat of infection with the virus and most of them said they shared injection devices.

She said of the 101,036 prison inmates in 2006, 23,409 were involved in narcotics abuse and 70 percent of them were Napza (narcotics, psychotropics, addictive substances) users. About 40 percent of the Napza convicts were intravenous drug users.