BNN destroys two hectares of cannabis at Pulo and Ie Seum in Aceh Besar
On 10 September 2025, Indonesia's BNN led a 117-person task force that destroyed about 5,000 cannabis plants weighing roughly 2.3 tonnes on two hillsides in Seulimeum and Masjid Raya, Aceh Besar, after a late-August survey found 1.3 and 0.7 hectare plots; no growers were named.
🇮🇩 Desa Pulo and Desa Ie Seum, Aceh Besar, Aceh · Indonesia
On 10 September 2025 a joint BNN task force destroyed cannabis on two hillsides in Aceh Besar
regency, Aceh, after investigators mapped the plots between 31 August and 7 September.[1][2]
At Desa Pulo in Seulimeum subdistrict, BNN said officers found about 1.3 hectares with roughly
3,500 plants and an estimated 1,400 kilograms of wet cannabis; at Desa Ie Seum in Masjid Raya,
about 0.7 hectare held roughly 1,500 plants and 900 kilogramswet weight.[1][2]Led by cannabis
destruction task-force chief Commissioner Riki Kurniawan, 117 personnel from BNN, the military,
police, prosecutors, customs and local agencies burned about 5,000 plants on site, totalling
roughly 2.3 tonnes.[1][2]
The releases describe the action as mandatory destruction under Indonesia’s narcotics law and
warn growers face five to twenty years’ imprisonment or life sentences, but name no one arrested
at these fields.[1][2]
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BNN personnel during the 10 September 2025 destruction of cannabis fields in Aceh Besar.Photo details
BNN counted about 5,000 plants destroyed while its site survey listed roughly 5,000 plants across both fields; wet-weight totals combined to about 2.3 tonnes.
No suspects were arrested or identified in the opened releases.
The map point sits between the two named villages; BNN published coordinates only for each plot.
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