Indonesian authorities burned a cannabis plantation in Teupin Reuseup village in North Aceh district on 16 August 2023 after drones found it earlier that month.[1]
A joint team of the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) and the National Research and Innovation Agency detected 4.5 hectares of land holding an estimated 21,100 cannabis plants ready for harvest during aerial surveillance from 3 to 13 August, BNN deputy for eradication Wayan Sugiri said.[1] More than 150 police, customs and BNN officers were deployed to uproot about 20 tons of marijuana for burning.[1] Sugiri called the burning the government’s fifth that year and said authorities had burned 43 hectares with an estimated 190,000 plants in March.[1]
ANTARA’s photo-story on the same joint operation says the drone survey found 4.5 hectares of ready-to-harvest plants across 11 locations in Teupin Reuseup with more than 21,000 plants, about 20 tons, alongside two 1.2-hectare plots with over 11,000 trees in Blang Manyak village.[2] BNN acting director of narcotics Guntur Aryo Tejo said the fields were located through unmanned aerial vehicle flights with the research agency, followed up by investigation on the ground.[2]
