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Police burn 25 hectares of cannabis fields in Nagan Raya, Aceh

Police and customs officers destroyed cannabis fields across 25 hectares at eight sites in Beutong Ateuh Banggalang, Nagan Raya, Aceh, over six days to 24 June 2025. Police estimated the fields held about one million plants and put the total weight at about 200 tonnes; the operation followed the arrest of two suspected traffickers and the seizure of 27 kg of dried cannabis in May.

🇮🇩 Beutong Ateuh Banggalang, Nagan Raya, Aceh · Indonesia

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Arrested
2
Plants destroyed
1,000,000
Hectares
25
Cannabis
200,000 kg

Police destroyed cannabis fields across 25 hectares in Beutong Ateuh Banggalang, Nagan Raya regency, Aceh.[1] The operation covered eight sites.[1] The destruction took six days, from 19 to 24 June 2025.[1] Customs officers joined the police teams.[2] It followed the arrest of two suspected traffickers, Yusni of North Aceh and Khairul of Central Aceh.[1] Police said their information showed the cannabis had come from Blang Meurandeh.[1] The Aceh customs office said the case began with the seizure of 27 kilograms of dried cannabis in Bener Meriah regency on 22 May 2025.[2] Two suspects identified by the initials YH and KR were detained in Lhokseumawe and Central Aceh in mid-June.[2]

The joint team included Bareskrim, the national police’s criminal investigation department, Aceh regional police, Nagan Raya district police and the Aceh customs office.[2] The fields were spread across Blang Meurandeh and Kuta Teungoh villages.[1] Police estimated 40,000 plants per hectare, about one million plants in total, with a combined weight of about 200 tonnes.[1] At one site the plants stood 1.5 to 2 metres tall.[3] Officers pulled the plants up, piled them and burned them on site.[3] Local residents helped with the destruction.[3]

Brigadier General Eko Hadi Santoso, director of the national police’s drug crimes unit, led the destruction.[3] The customs office described the operation as part of government efforts to cut the drug trade in Aceh.[2] Police said the operation ran safely and all personnel returned.[1]

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Sources

  1. Bareskrim Polri musnahkan 25 ha ladang ganja di Nagan Raya. ANTARA News Aceh, 25 June 2025. In Indonesian.
  2. Tim Gabungan Musnahkan 25 Hektare Ladang Ganja di Nagan Raya. Liputan6, 26 June 2025. In Indonesian.
  3. Bareskrim Musnahkan 25 Hektare Ladang Ganja di Nagan Raya Aceh. detikNews, 24 June 2025. In Indonesian.

Open questions the AI reported

  • Antara says the destruction took six days, from 19 to 24 June 2025; Liputan6 says it was carried out on 24 June and that the fields were destroyed on site the same day.
  • The plot-by-plot counts in the Antara report total 880,000 plants at seven of the eight sites and give no count for a three-hectare plot in Blang Meurandeh; the roughly one million figure is police's estimate of 40,000 plants per hectare across 25 hectares.
  • The reports name no farmers or landowners and do not say whether anyone was detained at the fields; no charges, court dates or sentences for the two detained suspects were reported.

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