Nine hectares of cannabis destroyed in Aceh joint operation
A 202-strong joint force of Indonesia's anti-narcotics agency, police, soldiers, customs and civil-service police destroyed nine hectares of harvest-ready cannabis in Nagan Raya and Aceh Besar at the end of June 2021. Officers burned about 20,000 plants, seized 529 kg of dried cannabis and held four suspects tied to an inter-island trafficking syndicate.
🇮🇩 Beutong, Nagan Raya and Seulimeum, Aceh Besar, Aceh · Indonesia
A joint force of 202 personnel from the National Narcotics Agency (BNN), the
Aceh Regional Police, soldiers of district military command 0101 Aceh Besar,
customs and the civil-service police mustered at a field in Pulo village,
Seulimeum, Aceh Besar, before setting out on a four-to-five-hour march to
harvest-ready cannabis fields at the feet of Mount Seulawah Agam and Mount
Leuser.[1]The operation covered two hectares in Pulo village and seven
hectares in Beutong Ateuh village, Beutong, Nagan Raya, nine hectares in
all.[1]
BNN estimated the crop at about 20,000 plants, four to five months old, with a
wet-plant weight of around 15 tonnes.[1]Officers uprooted the plants one by
one and burned them on the spot.[1]Alongside the destroyed fields,
authorities held four suspects and 529 kg of dried cannabis ready for
distribution.[1][2]
The drugs directorate of the national police criminal investigation agency
(Bareskrim Polri) said the case broke up a national-network syndicate moving
cannabis through Aceh, Medan, Palembang, Bogor and Jakarta.[2]Its deputy
director for narcotics, Senior Commissioner Jayadi, presented the evidence at a
press conference at the Central Aceh police headquarters on 1 July 2021, after
the seven hectares in the Beutong mountains of the Mount Leuser area were
destroyed on Wednesday 30 June.[2]
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Bareskrim officers display seized dried cannabis at the 1 July 2021 press conference in Central Aceh. Photo: Syifa Yulinnas/ANTARA FotoPhoto details
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Source: ANTARA FotoJoint personnel during the Aceh eradication operation, from ANTARA's photo-story on the destroyed fieldsPhoto details
The wider two-district operation is documented by a photo-story published 25 July 2021 that states no operation date; the report uses 30 June 2021, the documented destruction day in Beutong.
Both opened accounts come from ANTARA Foto; no account from another outlet was found.
The 15-tonne wet-plant weight is the agency's estimate for the standing crop, not processed cannabis.
No names, charges or court outcomes for the four suspects were reported in the opened sources.
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