Troops uproot 169 harvest-ready plants feeding armed group
Border task force Yonif 753/ATV secured a cannabis plot at Tomka village in Oksamol on 23 June 2026, uprooting 169 harvest-ready plants for handover to the nearest police post. The joint defence command said the crop was an armed group's logistics source meant for sale in Jayapura after harvest.
🇮🇩 Tomka village, Oksamol district, Pegunungan Bintang · Indonesia
- Plants destroyed
- 169
Infantry Battalion 753/ATV border task force personnel secured a cannabis
plantation at Tomka village, Oksamol district, Pegunungan Bintang regency, on 23
June 2026, finding 169 harvest-ready plants believed grown in the forest around
the village.[1]
Troops immediately uprooted the plants to hand them to the nearest police post
for destruction.[1] Joint Regional Defence Command III chief Lieutenant
General Lucky Avianto said intelligence indicated the crop was a logistics
source for an armed criminal group (KKB) and would have been sold to the public
in Jayapura after harvest; that attribution comes solely from the military.[1]
Sources
- Satgas Yonif 753/ATV amankan ladang ganja di Oksamol-Pegubin. ANTARA, 23 June 2026.
Open questions the AI reported
- Only ANTARA has published this operation in text form; no second outlet account was found.
- The claim that the plot supplied an armed group comes solely from the military command, with no independent corroboration.
- No arrests were reported and the plot's area was not given.