--- title: This Is What Drug-Abuse Education Looks Like in Indonesia description: Police in the Indonesian city of Balikpapan are urging young people to say no to drugs and alcohol and yes to sweet drinks and fritters canonical: https://time.com/4538129/drug-video-indonesia-cendol-gorengan-police/ author: Yenni Kwok article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-20T09:01:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:37:47.897Z og:title: This Is What Drug-Abuse Education Looks Like in Indonesia og:description: Banana fritters and a glass of 'es cendol,' anyone? og:url: https://time.com/4538129/drug-video-indonesia-cendol-gorengan-police/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Is What Drug-Abuse Education Looks Like in Indonesia twitter:description: Banana fritters and a glass of 'es cendol,' anyone? twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Is What Drug-Abuse Education Looks Like in Indonesia > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Yenni Kwok](https://time.com/author/yenni-kwok/) ## Yenni Kwok Oct 20, 2016 9:01 AM UTC by [Yenni Kwok](https://time.com/author/yenni-kwok/) ## Yenni Kwok Oct 20, 2016 9:01 AM UTC Dancing to the tune of viral song “PPAP (Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen),” police officers in the Indonesian city of Balikpapan urge young people to say no to drugs and alcohol. Instead, they say, young people should get their kicks from snacks like fritters, known as _gorengan_ in Indonesian, and _es cendol_, an iced dessert. “I have _es cendol_, I have a beer,” a policeman sings in the video posted on the Facebook page of the Balikpapan police in East Kalimantan province. He then says “ugh” to the beer and opts for _es cendol._ Similarly, he sings “I have _gorengan_, I have drugs — ugh. _Gorengan_.” “Don’t consume drugs and drinks containing alcohol,” his colleague adds in the video. “Apart from destroying our bodies, they’re expensive! Better drink _es cendol_ and eat _gorengan_.” _Es cendol_ (with ingredients like rice flour, palm sugar and coconut milk) and _gorengan_ (ranging from banana fritters, deep-fried tofu to crispy fried chicken) aren’t exactly healthy, however, thanks to their high-calorie content. Drinking is generally frowned upon in Indonesia, a Muslim-majority country. Conservative Islamic parties are pushing for an alcohol-prohibition bill, but lawmakers are [doubtful](http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2016/09/26/lawmakers-throw-towel-over-prohibition-bill.html) that it will be passed in parliament by the end of this year. Indonesia also has one of the toughest antidrug regimes. Under the leadership of President Joko Widodo, the country has executed a total of 18 convicted drug traffickers since 2015\. Drug users are often [jailed](https://www.tni.org/en/article/indonesia-and-the-new-war-on-drugs) or [sent](http://theconversation.com/forced-rehabilitation-of-drug-users-in-indonesia-not-a-solution-43184) to rehabs in prisons, partly contributing to overcrowding of prisons. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4538129/drug-video-indonesia-cendol-gorengan-police/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4538129/drug-video-indonesia-cendol-gorengan-police/"},"headline":"This Is What Drug-Abuse Education Looks Like in Indonesia","datePublished":"2016-10-20T09:01:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:37:47.897Z","description":"Crispy fried chicken, anyone?","url":"https://time.com/4538129/drug-video-indonesia-cendol-gorengan-police/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Alcohol","Drugs","viral","police","indonesia"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Yenni Kwok","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/yenni-kwok/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4538129/drug-video-indonesia-cendol-gorengan-police/","name":"This Is What Drug-Abuse Education Looks Like in Indonesia"}}]}] ```