Empat Lawang police uproot a three-hectare cannabis field at Batu Jungul
On 13 February 2026 Empat Lawang district police raided a roughly three-hectare cannabis plantation in coffee hills at Batu Jungul, seizing about 200 kg of dried cannabis in eight sacks and uprooting about 6,000 wet plants; two guards were briefly held but released when dozens of armed villagers blocked the evacuation route.
🇮🇩 Batu Jungul, Muara Pinang, Empat Lawang, South Sumatra · Indonesia
On Friday 13 February 2026, narcotics detectives from Empat Lawang district police, led by
district police chief Abdul Aziz Septiadi, reached a hidden cannabis plantation of roughly
three hectares in coffee-growing hills at Batu Jungul village, Muara Pinang district,
Empat Lawang regency, South Sumatra.[1][2]The field was split across two plots on a
mountaintop reached after a six-to-eight-hour walk from the village.[1]
Officers uprooted plants and seized eight sacks of dried cannabis ready for sale, weighing
about 200 kilograms, which police valued at about one billion rupiah.[1][2]They also
reported about 6,000 wet cannabis stalks at the site.[1]
At a guard hut they briefly detained a couple with initials R (22) and A (18), whom police
described as plantation minders rather than the owner.[1]While evacuating the pair and
evidence, an crowd that grew to about 50 people with machetes blocked the track and forced
police to release them for officers’ safety.[1]Polda Sumsel spokesperson Commissioner
Nandang Mu’min Wijaya said investigators had already recorded their statements and identified
the alleged owner as Pen, with proceeds said to go to a man with initial E, R’s father.[1][2]
The report names no successful arrest of Pen or E at the scene.[1][2]
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Police said the alleged owner Pen alias Pinhar was identified after initial questioning, but no arrest of the owner was reported at the raid.
Guard couple R and A were taken then freed by an estimated 50 villagers with machetes; Polda Sumsel said obstruction would be pursued separately.
Kompas.id gives the walk-in to the site as starting Thursday 12 February with arrival about 05:00 on Friday; Tribun places the raid on Friday 13 February.
Coordinates mark Empat Lawang regency, not the hillside plots reached after a six-to-eight-hour hike.
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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