BANDUNG: More than 60 Indonesians are dead and dozens have been hospitalised from drinking illegal homemade alcohol, authorities said Monday, with the toll steadily climbing. But high taxes make it expensive, so poorly paid workers sometimes turn to potentially dangerous homemade alcohol. More than 60 Indonesians are dead and dozens have been hospitalised from drinking illegal homemade alcohol, authorities said Monday, with the toll steadily climbing. Seven people have been arrested for allegedly selling the bootleg alcohol, including a man in West Java who mixed mosquito repellent into his homemade concoction. "He mixed (pure alcohol) with ginseng, cough medicine and mosquito repellent," local police chief Agung Budi Maryoto told a press conference Monday.

Source: New Strait Times April 09, 2018 11:03 UTC