Aceh Utara: 18 hectares of cannabis destroyed and four farmers held
Aceh’s provincial narcotics agency and police uprooted and burned cannabis across about 18 hectares at Teupin Reusep in North Aceh on 27 October 2026, arresting four suspected growers and handing them to Lhokseumawe police. Plants stood one to two metres tall in fields reached after a long walk at roughly 207 metres elevation.
🇮🇩 Teupin Reusep, Sawang, Aceh Utara · Indonesia
- Arrested
- 4
- Hectares
- 18
On Tuesday 27 October 2026, about ninety officers from the Aceh provincial National
Narcotics Agency (BNNP Aceh), Aceh police, Brimob and Lhokseumawe district police raided
cannabis plots at Alue Garut and Cot Mancang hamlets in Teupin Reusep village, Sawang district,
North Aceh.[1] The fields covered roughly eighteen hectares at about 207 metres above sea
level.[2][1]
Plants were about one to two metres high, spaced roughly half a metre apart and estimated to be
two to four months old.[2][1] Staff pulled them up and burned them on site.[2] Four suspected
growers were arrested and sent to Lhokseumawe police for further investigation.[2][1]
Sources
- BNNP Aceh dan tim gabungan ungkap temuan ladang ganja 18 hektare. ANTARA, 28 October 2026. In Indonesian.
- BNN Aceh Musnahkan Ladang Ganja 18 Hektare di Aceh Utara, 4 Orang Ditangkap. detikSumut, 28 October 2026. In Indonesian.
Open questions the AI reported
- ANTARA says the joint raid took place on Tuesday 27 October while detik describes uprooting and burning led by the BNNP Aceh chief on Wednesday 28 October; both refer to the same fields.
- Neither report counts individual plants or gives an estimated dry weight, only the 18-hectare area.
- The four detainees are not named in the Indonesian reports opened here.
