BNN and Aceh police destroy 155 hectares of cannabis and arrest five farmers
Indonesia’s BNN and Aceh provincial police burned cannabis across about 155 hectares at more than ten sites after a twelve-day operation that began on 23 November 2011. Five farmers were arrested in the fields; authorities said roughly 1.5 million plants were destroyed along with drying and hash-making equipment.
BNN, Indonesia’s national narcotics agency, worked with Aceh provincial police for twelve days from
23 November 2011 and found cannabis spread across more than ten locations in five Aceh districts.[1]On 4 December 2011 reporters and officials visited fields near Lam Aping in Lemteuba,
Seulimeum, Aceh Besar, where Brigadier General Benny Joshua Mamoto of BNN said plants up to 2.5
metres high were ready for harvest.[1]
Destruction and arrests
Officers burned cannabis on the sites and also destroyed shelters used by growers.[1]BNN and
police said the overall find covered about 155 hectares—the largest cannabis eradication they had
recorded in Aceh.[1]Five suspects were caught in the fields; police said they admitted to
farming and owning the plots.[1]At a ceremony in Banda Aceh on 5 December, Aceh police said
operations Rencong I and II had destroyed about 1.5 million cannabis plants over 155.5 hectares and
had also burned 3.5 kg of methamphetamine seized separately.[2]
Methods
Officials said growers had cleared forest, used plastic fencing and scarecrows, and applied urea
fertiliser; nine quintals of urea were seized at one location.[1]Police also reported finding
hash-oil distillation equipment at another site.[1]
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