12 held in Batam drug roundup with 9.18 g ganja seized
Polresta Barelang said its October 2026 roundup in Batam produced nine cases, 12 male suspects and a mixed drug haul including 9.18 grams of ganja. Police presented the seizures on 3 November and said the suspects face narcotics charges carrying up to 20 years in prison.
🇮🇩 Batam, Riau Islands · Indonesia
Arrested
12
Cannabis
9.18 g
Polresta Barelang’s narcotics unit uncovered nine narcotics cases during October
2026 in Batam.[1]Polresta Barelang’s narcotics unit uncovered nine narcotics
cases during October 2026 in Batam.[2]Police named 12 men as suspects in
those nine cases.[1]Barelang police chief Kombes Pol Anggoro Wicaksono
displayed the seized narcotics from the October cases.[2]Police presented the
seizures on 3 November 2026.[2]
Officers listed six packets of ganja with a net weight of 9.18 grams among the
seized evidence.[1]Officers listed six packets of ganja with a net weight of
9.18 grams among the seized evidence.[2]The same haul included 51 packets of
sabu weighing 154.24 grams and 163 ecstasy pills weighing 66.61 grams.[1]Officers also seized nine packs of narcotic liquid weighing 255 grams in total.[1]The second account describes the liquid seizure as 90 pieces of liquid vape
weighing 255 grams in total.[2]Police put the combined economic value of all
seized narcotics at about Rp500 million.[1]Police said the haul could save
about 4,100 people from drug abuse.[1]
Police said the nine-case roundup was part of efforts to suppress drug
trafficking in Polresta Barelang’s jurisdiction.[1]The suspects were charged
under criminal-code and narcotics provisions carrying a maximum 20-year prison
term.[2]
Photos and video
Police officers hold up seized drug evidence at the Polresta Barelang press conference in Batam. Source: jurnalpolisi.co.id
The operation covered October 2026 and was presented on 3 November 2026; 3 November 2026 is used as the incident date.
The value estimate of about Rp500 million and the 4,100-people-saved estimate cover all seized drugs together, so no cannabis-only value is recorded.
The two opened accounts differ on the liquid vape count, nine packs versus 90 pieces, while both give 255 grams in total; the cannabis figure is unaffected.
The reports do not break down which of the 12 suspects held the ganja; the arrested total is for the whole nine-case roundup.
The same page also describes a separate evidence-destruction exercise from six September-October 2026 reports involving 10 suspects, left out here as a different event.
The page photo is established only as officers displaying evidence at the press conference from the screenshot and article context, with no published credit.
The Bireuen District Attorney's Office destroyed 4.45 kg of cannabis from seven final narcotics cases on 4 November 2026, alongside methamphetamine and other case evidence. The drugs covered cases from August to October 2026 and were crushed after the verdicts obtained final legal force.
Kejari Jembrana destroyed evidence from 39 final criminal cases on 2 November 2026, including 33.04 grams of cannabis and four cannabis plants. Narcotics made up 24 of the 39 cases, alongside methamphetamine, ecstasy and non-drug evidence.
Police in Aceh Tengah regency, Aceh, detained 22 people in 13 narcotics cases reported for September and October 2026 and seized 23,662.8 grams (23.66 kg) of ganja in three cannabis cases, the regency police chief said. The other cases involved methamphetamine and ecstasy.
South Sumatra's provincial police destroyed drug evidence including 21 grams of cannabis in the courtyard of their Palembang headquarters on 30 October 2026. Police said the evidence came from 71 cases with 87 suspects opened in October, and that the haul was mostly 36.4 kg of methamphetamine.
