Army intelligence unit burns 3,500 cannabis plants in Aceh Besar hills
On 17 September 2026 Indonesia's Deninteldam IM intelligence detachment found about 1.5 hectares of cannabis in mountains near Lambada village, Aceh Besar, uprooted roughly 3,500 plants one to 1.5 metres tall and burned them on site. No one was arrested.
🇮🇩 Lambada, Lamteuba, Seulimuem, Aceh Besar · Indonesia
- Plants destroyed
- 3,500
- Hectares
- 1.5
On Thursday 17 September 2026 personnel of the Iskandar Muda regional command’s intelligence
detachment (Deninteldam IM) found a cannabis plot of about 1.5 hectares in mountains near
Lambada village, Lamteuba, Seulimuem subdistrict, Aceh Besar regency.[1][2]
The Aceh Post and Analisa Aceh reported that the team counted about 3,500 plants between
roughly 100 and 150 centimetres tall, uprooted them and burned the crop on the spot to keep
it from entering the illicit market.[1][2]
Both outlets said the site lay in steep, densely vegetated terrain about five kilometres on
foot from Lambada, and that soldiers also found a wok and three plastic plates they believed
were used at the plantation.[1][2] No cultivator was named and nobody was arrested.[1][2]
The Aceh Post published a photograph of the on-site destruction credited to the detachment.[1]
Sources
- Intel Kodam Iskandar Muda Temukan Ladang Ganja 1,5 Hektare di Aceh Besar. The Aceh Post, 18 September 2026. In Indonesian.
- Deninteldam IM Musnahkan 3.500 Batang Ganja di Aceh Besar. Analisa Aceh, 18 September 2026. In Indonesian.
Open questions the AI reported
- The plot size is an estimate of about 1.5 hectares; neither outlet gives a precise survey.
- Officers also found a wok and three plastic plates nearby; the growers were not identified and no arrests were made.
- An unverified tip that cultivators fled to Singapore was mentioned in some local reports but was not confirmed in these accounts.
- The map marks Lambada village; the hillside plots required about five kilometres of foot travel from the village.
