Jakarta. Police in Indonesia have arrested four Chinese nationals and seized 94 kilograms of methamphetamine and more than 100,000 ecstasy pills in the latest incident highlighting that the death penalty for drug offenses is having little deterrent effect.

The bust began on Aug. 9 when officials at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport discovered six kilograms of meth hidden in the lining of two suitcases brought by a pair of Chinese men on a Malaysia Airlines flight from Guangzhou, via Kuala Lumpur.

The two men then led officers to their contact person in Jakarta, another Chinese national who was staying at a hotel in West Jakarta.

From this suspect, police learned that the drugs were to be sent to a fourth Chinese man at an apartment in North Jakarta.

Police arrested the fourth suspect (none of them men were identified by name) at another apartment in Central Jakarta on Aug. 19, and he led them to a third apartment, this one in North Jakarta, where police found a huge haul of drugs: 88 kilos of meth and 112,000 ecstasy pills.

Police estimate the street value of all the drugs seized at Rp 206.5 billion ($14.7 million).

All four suspects face trafficking charges that carry a possible death sentence.

The haul, though, is the latest in a series of increasingly common high-volume seizures made by authorities this year that indicate that the government’s controversial hard line on executing convicted drug convicts is proving to be of little or no deterrence for would-be smugglers.