At one point, the video shows agents questioning the pilot as they hold a plastic bottle filled with a liquid. In the video’s description on Instagram, the police said the bottle contained urine that they suspected he was carrying to deceive officers.
The pilot told investigators that he had been promised 50,000 Malaysian Ringgit, or about $12,200, to transport the drugs to Jakarta, the police said. He also said that, after he checked into a local hotel, he had been told he would receive further instructions from a person from Malaysia who would later collect the drugs, according to the police.
Investigators said that the pilot admitted transporting drugs on two other trips, including one in which he delivered methamphetamine to Sabah, a Malaysian state on the island of Borneo, and 15 pounds of methamphetamine to Jakarta.
It was not clear if the pilot had a lawyer. The police said he was being investigated under Indonesia’s narcotics law, which carries serious penalties — including the possibility of the death penalty — for people convicted of trafficking large quantities of illegal drugs.