BNN destroys four hectares of cannabis in Aceh Besar, arrests one
Indonesia's National Narcotics Agency destroyed a four-hectare cannabis plantation across three sites in Aceh Besar regency, seizing about seven tons of wet plants. One suspect was arrested with 12 sacks of dried cannabis after a tip about shipments from Aceh to Lampung.
🇮🇩 Lamlung village, Indrapuri, Aceh Besar · Indonesia
Indonesia’s National Narcotics Agency (BNN) destroyed a four-hectare marijuana
plantation spread over three sites in Aceh Besar regency, as announced in Aceh
Besar on Wednesday 6 March 2024 by Brigadier General Ruddi Setiawan, BNN’s
deputy for narcoticseradication.[1]
A combined force of 170 personnel from BNN, BNN’s Aceh office, the military
and police, the prosecutor’s office, customs, and the agriculture and forestry
departments took part in the eradication, which the agency linked to
post-election security operations.[1]Two of the sites were partly harvested
fields at altitudes of 129 and 109 metres in Lamlung village, Indrapuri
district, and the wet marijuana plants destroyed weighed about seven tons.[1]
The agency said the plantations were found after public information about
marijuana shipments from Aceh to Lampung.[1]BNN arrested a suspect
identified only as RZ and confiscated 12 sacks of dried marijuana.[1]
Photos and video
Authorities burn cannabis plants during the Aceh Besar eradication.Photo details
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
