Indonesian National Police (Polri)
🇮🇩 Indonesia · Police · 12 reports
- People arrested
- 16
- Plants destroyed
- 177,516
- Cannabis seized
- 84.6847 t
Totals of what these reports state; a report counts when a source it cites names the agency.
BNN burns 4 tons of cannabis on 2.5 hectares in Aceh Besar
Indonesia's narcotics agency destroyed more than four tons of ready-to-harvest cannabis on 2.5 hectares in the mountains of Desa Pulo Lamteba, Aceh Besar. Officers uprooted and burned the plants on site after a week-long investigation; no owner was found.
Area 2.5 haCannabis 4 tPadangsidimpuan police arrest 64-year-old pensioner with 31.56 g of ganja
Padangsidimpuan police arrested a 64-year-old pensioner and recidivist on Jalan Alboin Hutabarat on 9 November 2026 after finding 31.56 grams of ganja in a paper wrapper. Police said the suspect bought the cannabis for Rp50,000 from an unidentified seller, and seized his motorcycle.
Arrested 1Cannabis 31.56 gVehicles confiscated 1Two held in Kampar with 1.22 kg ganja and meth
Kampar narcotics police arrested courier MK and dealer HH in Tanjung village on 4 November 2026 after a roadside cannabis find led to a house-shop search. Officers seized 1,222.36 grams of dried cannabis and 11.86 grams of meth, and both suspects face narcotics charges while suppliers are sought.
Arrested 2Cannabis 1.22236 kgThree held as 18 hectares of cannabis burned in Aceh Utara
A joint Bareskrim, BNN and Lhokseumawe police team destroyed about 18 hectares of harvest-ready cannabis at Alue Garut, Teupin Ruseb, Sawang on 2 November 2026 by burning the plants. Three suspected field owners aged 32 to 42, identified only by initials, were arrested.
Arrested 3Area 18 haAceh police and BNN destroy 157,290 cannabis plants in six districts
Aceh provincial police and the provincial narcotics agency destroyed 157,290 cannabis plants across 104.86 hectares in six districts of Aceh on 31 October and 1 November 2026. Police estimated the uprooted plants at 78.645 tonnes. A 2 November national-police recap put the wider operation at 122.86 hectares and named suspects.
Plants destroyed 157,290Area 104.9 haCannabis 78.645 tFive arrested as police seize 9.4 kg in Instagram cannabis case
Police arrested five people and seized 9.4 kg of cannabis and some tramadol in a series of operations across Pasuruan, Brebes, Bogor and Medan between 17 and 27 August 2026. Bareskrim Polri says cannabis was sold through an Instagram account, King_Garden, and shipped with Indah Cargo in parcels disguised as textiles.
Arrested 5Cannabis 9.4 kgAceh police chief burns three hectares of cannabis at Lampanah
On 29 April 2026 Aceh provincial police destroyed three hectares of cannabis at Lampanah, Aceh Besar, during Operasi Antik Seulawah 2026. Officers had mapped about 20 hectares of fields in the area with an estimated 50-tonne harvest potential but burned only the Lampanah plot that day; no arrests were reported.
Area 3 haJoint patrol removes 226 cannabis plants from two Pegunungan Bintang sites
A 29-person joint patrol found cannabis plantations at Yunabol in Oksibil and Siminbuk in Serambakon during operations on 10 and 11 April 2026, removing about 226 plants: 81 at Yunabol and 145 at Siminbuk. Two men were held as witnesses, not suspects, and both tested negative in initial urine examinations.
Plants destroyed 226BNN burns 2.5-hectare cannabis crop in Aceh Besar mountains
BNN Aceh officers with soldiers and police burned a 2.5-hectare cannabis crop, about three months old and ready for harvest, in the Seulawah mountains at Indrapuri, Aceh Besar on 1 June 2024. No grower was caught.
Area 2.5 haNine hectares of cannabis destroyed in Aceh joint operation
A 202-strong joint force of Indonesia's anti-narcotics agency, police, soldiers, customs and civil-service police destroyed nine hectares of harvest-ready cannabis in Nagan Raya and Aceh Besar at the end of June 2021. Officers burned about 20,000 plants, seized 529 kg of dried cannabis and held four suspects tied to an inter-island trafficking syndicate.
Arrested 4Plants destroyed 20,000Area 9 haCannabis 529 kg189 hectares of cannabis destroyed in Aceh's Bersinar Rencong operation
Indonesian police, soldiers and narcotics officers destroyed 189.5 hectares of cannabis fields at 23 sites across Aceh on 1 April 2016 in Operation Bersinar Rencong, attended by national police chief Badrodin Haiti. Officers burned the plants on site, including 13 hectares at Teupin Rusep in North Aceh.
Area 189.5 haPolice seize 1.5 tonnes of marijuana from an Aceh truck on the Tangerang highway
Indonesia's National Police intercepted a truck on the Tangerang–Banten highway carrying 1.5 tonnes of marijuana from Aceh and arrested the driver. The load was bound for a Bogor warehouse raided on 16 December and buyers in three West Java towns.
Arrested 1Cannabis 1.5 t