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Jakarta (ANTARA News) - School children are warned to beware of drug-laced candies, allegedly circulating free at schools, drug management activist Baby Jim Aditya said here on Thursday.

Therefore she called on parents to watch over their children and to control the locations were the drug-laced candies are sold free around schools.

"I have heard from several mothers who admitted that their children would eat only the sweet they bought from particular vendors near their schools," Baby said in a dialog to mark International Anti-drugs Day, organized by Social Affairs Ministry, on Thursday.

She said a child who would like to keep buying candies from one special vendor only has indicated that the sweet food might contain a particular substance which made the child addicted.

"Of course, there is no official report or evidence about the issue but it does not mean that parents have to ignore it," she said.

Recently, five Sekar Bangsa kindergarten children in Pondok Labu, South Jakarta, were admitted to Fatmawati Hospital after they ate chocolate candies which were distributed to them by one of their friends.

The kindergarten children felt dizzy and queasy after eating the candies.

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