South Sumatra police dismantle a 20-hectare cannabis field at Batu Jungul
On 24 April 2026 South Sumatra regional police and Empat Lawang district police broke up a 20-hectare cannabis plantation at Batu Jungul after arresting the alleged organiser in Palembang, seizing 220 kg of dried cannabis in 11 sacks. Police said the network had supplied Java since 2024; four other suspects were wanted.
🇮🇩 Batu Jungul, Muara Pinang, Empat Lawang, South Sumatra · Indonesia
The narcotics directorate of the South Sumatra regional police, with Empat Lawang district
police, ran a joint operation on Friday 24 April 2026 that dismantled a 20-hectare cannabis
field at Batu Jungul village in Muara Pinang district, Empat Lawang regency.[1][2]
Police said the case grew from work since February 2026 mapping a distribution network that
reached Java.[1][2]They arrested the main suspect, with initials PD alias Pinhar, at a
bus counter on Gubernur H. Bastari street in Palembang; cannabis on him led investigators
to the Batu Jungul site, where they found a large active field and dried cannabis ready for
sale.[1][2]
Officers seized220 kilograms of dried cannabis in 11 large sacks, four motorcycles, land
ownership papers and maps of the plantation, according to director of narcotics investigations
Senior Commissioner Yulian Perdana.[1][2]Police said the suspect had run planting and
distribution since 2024 across Empat Lawang, Palembang and Java, and that four other people
in the network were wanted.[1]
Empat Lawang police chief Abdul Aziz Septiadi said breaking the 20-hectare field and holding
the alleged owner was meant to stop supply at the source.[1]
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Tribrata News and the national police English release say the 20-hectare field was broken up but do not describe on-site burning of standing plants; reporting centres on the seizure of 220 kg of dried cannabis and dismantling the plantation.
Neither opened source linked a recoverable direct photograph URL of the field or the seized sacks.
Four other alleged network members were listed as fugitives; only the main suspect with initials PD alias Pinhar was reported arrested in Palembang.
Batu Jungul lies in upland Empat Lawang; coordinates mark the regency rather than the exact hillside plots.
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.
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