Bireuen police destroy 20 hectares of cannabis in Operation ANTIK 2007
Bireuen police said Operation ANTIK 2007 found 20 hectares of cannabis spread across five sites in the hills of Desa Jaba, Peudada, on 27 March 2007, destroying about 8,000 plants on site and taking 2,000 stems as evidence while three suspected growers fled into the forest.
Bireuen police chief S. Rubianto led 150 officers in Operation ANTIK 2007 on Tuesday 27 March 2007,
finding about 20 hectares of cannabis in the Pinto Rimba hills of Desa Jaba, Peudada regency.[1]Personnel left Bireuen at about 08:00 and reached the fields on foot after 13:00.[1]
On-site destruction
Rubianto said the cannabis was split across five locations in the same forest area, with some plots
30 centimetres high and others about one metre tall.[1]Officers destroyed about 8,000 plants on
site and took 2,000 stems to police headquarters as evidence.[1]They also demolished two shacks
believed to belong to growers, including a high lookout structure, and seized urea fertiliser,
hoes, irrigation hose and a machete.[1]
Contact with growers
Police said they saw three people run into the forest and chose not to chase them.[1]A farmer
watering vegetables nearby was questioned but not detained because he was outside the cannabis
plots.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Kapolres Rubianto estimated 20 hectares total across five separated plots; the opened report does not give a precise plant count for the full area, only 8,000 destroyed on site and 2,000 seized as evidence.
Police heard an explosion near the fields but could not confirm it was gunfire rather than firecrackers used as a warning signal.
No arrests were made; three people seen fleeing were not pursued into the forest.
Only one wire-service report on this specific operation was opened; no second independent outlet covering the same raid was found.
Indonesia's narcotics agency destroyed more than four tons of ready-to-harvest cannabis on 2.5 hectares in the mountains of Desa Pulo Lamteba, Aceh Besar. Officers uprooted and burned the plants on site after a week-long investigation; no owner was found.
Officers in Aceh uprooted thousands of cannabis plants to their roots and burned them on site to cut off the production source. The account gives no precise location, exact plant count, field area or suspects.
A joint Bareskrim, BNN and Lhokseumawe police team destroyed about 18 hectares of harvest-ready cannabis at Alue Garut, Teupin Ruseb, Sawang on 2 November 2026 by burning the plants. Three suspected field owners aged 32 to 42, identified only by initials, were arrested.
A joint Polri-BNN operation destroyed 122.86 hectares of cannabis fields across North Sumatra and Aceh between 27 October and 2 November 2026. Four people were detained in North Aceh, with three named as suspects facing up to 20 years' imprisonment.
Arrested 4Charged 3Plants destroyed 150,000Area 122.9 ha
