PROHIBITION: Indonesia Alcohol Deaths Exceed 100 as Police Vow Crackdown.

It’s unclear how effective the crackdown will be. Curbs on sales of legal alcohol in Muslim-majority Indonesia, including a ban implemented in 2015 on sales at tens of thousands of convenience stores, have created a significant black market for bootleg liquor among the country’s poor.

“If what is needed is limited in the legal market because of (government) policies, then the need would be fulfilled by those who want to make a profit” from the black market, said Sugianto Tandra, a researcher at the Center for Indonesian Policy Studies.

“The current incidence of rampant bootleg alcohol is because there is a need to drink but the product is not available in the legal market,” he said.

Nannystaters never learn.