Eight-hour trek leads police to 3-hectare hillside crop
Mandailing Natal police found a three-hectare cannabis field on Tor Sihite hill at Rao Rao Dolok on 30 May 2026 after an eight-hour trek through steep terrain: about 3,000 plants aged three to four months and one to two metres tall. No owner or grower was present; plant exhibits went to the Polres for investigation.
🇮🇩 Tor Sihite hill, Rao Rao Dolok, Tambangan, Mandailing Natal · Indonesia
- Plants destroyed
- 3,000
Mandailing Natal police chief AKBP Bagus Priandy said officers found a cannabis
field of about three hectares on Tor Sihite hill at Rao Rao Dolok village,
Tambangan district, on Saturday 30 May 2026 at about 5:15 am.[1]
The field held about 3,000 cannabis plants estimated at three to four months
old and one to two metres tall.[1] Officers found no owner or suspected
grower at the site, which sits in steep hills far from settlements and took
about eight hours to reach on foot.[1] Plant exhibits were taken to the Polres
for further investigation.[1]
Sources
- Polisi Temukan 3 Hektare Ladang Ganja di Madina. Detik, 31 May 2026.
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- Only Detik has published this find in text form; no second outlet account was found.
- The growers are unknown; nobody was at the remote site.
- Whether the exhibits led to arrests is unreported.