🇮🇩 Indonesia
7 reports of cannabis enforcement.
Totals add up only what the reports state; most operations are never reported in numbers.
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Latest reports
Aceh police find 18 hectares of cannabis and arrest four farmers
A 90-person joint team found about 18 hectares of cannabis in Teupin Reusep, North Aceh, on 27 October 2026 and handed four farmers to police. The plants were one to two metres tall and two to four months old. The site is in the same village where BNN destroyed 69 tonnes in November 2025.
Indonesia seizes 3.37 tonnes of Thai cannabis buds in East Java
A joint BNN, customs and East Java police operation from 29 June to 1 July 2026 found 3.37 tonnes of cannabis buds from Thailand in 500 suitcases and 80 cartons at a warehouse in Gresik. Twelve people were arrested, including a Chinese national; BNN said the buds were intended to be turned into THC vape liquid.
A Bali court gives a Dutch cannabis grower three years, not death
Police arrested a 31-year-old Dutchman and his Russian wife on 1 October 2025 after finding a hydroponic cannabis farm in their rented Denpasar house. Prosecutors sought nine years, but the Denpasar court convicted him under the plant-cultivation article and sentenced him to three years and a Rp510 million fine on 23 June 2026.
97,000 cannabis plants destroyed in North Aceh
Indonesia's national narcotics agency led 151 officers into six fields near the village of Teupin Rusep and destroyed about 97,000 plants, some 69 tonnes by wet weight, on 6.5 hectares.
Plants destroyed 97,000Hectares 6.5Cannabis 69,000 kgBNN burns 69 tonnes of cannabis in North Aceh
Six plots covering 6.5 hectares in Teupin Reusep, North Aceh, held about 97,000 cannabis plants and 69 tonnes wet weight; 151 personnel destroyed them in place on 6 November 2025. The village is one of four alternative-development pilot sites where BNN is trying to move growers to legal crops.
Indonesia burns seven tonnes of ripe cannabis in Aceh
BNN destroyed about seven tonnes wet weight of mostly ready-to-harvest cannabis on four hectares in Aceh Besar, roughly 20,000 plants, on 6 March 2024. Days earlier it had seized 200 kg of dried cannabis and arrested a suspect in the same district. The fields were found with monitoring by the national research agency (BRIN) and the geospatial agency (BIG).
Nearly 38,000 people are imprisoned in Indonesia for using cannabis in four years
Between 2009 and 2012, 37,923 people were imprisoned for using cannabis, according to figures cited by the Transnational Institute, even though the 2009 narcotics law and a Supreme Court circular were meant to send users to rehabilitation.
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