Police arrest 29 in 1,816-officer raid on Jakarta's Kampung Bahari
Police arrested 29 people in a morning sweep of Kampung Bahari, a drug-dealing area beside the railway in Tanjung Priok, North Jakarta, on 1 November 2026. Officers seized cannabis, hundreds of grams of methamphetamine, thousands of ecstasy pills and a tablet press; an earlier police count was 26.
🇮🇩 Kampung Bahari, Tanjung Priok, North Jakarta · Indonesia
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Police arrested 29 people in a raid on Kampung Bahari in North Jakarta on 1
November 2026.[1] Jakarta police drug squad director Kombes Bismo Teguh
Prakoso said the operation involved the city police, the national police
criminal investigation unit (Bareskrim), the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) and
the mobile brigade (Brimob).[2] He said some of those held were alleged
dealers or owners and others were users.[2] Police first reported 26 people
held.[2] Bismo later put the final number at 29.[1] About 1,816 officers
began sweeping the area at 5.30am.[3] They rode a commuter train from Tanjung
Priok station to Kampung Bahari and neighbouring Kampung Muara Bahari.[3][4]
Officers seized cannabis, hundreds of grams of methamphetamine, thousands of
ecstasy pills and a machine for pressing ecstasy tablets.[5] They also found
bongs, packaging, sharp weapons and firearms.[2] Police also seized Happy Five
pills and cartridges suspected of containing etomidate.[1]
Officers were pelted with stones during the raid.[2] He said drug dealing in
Kampung Bahari still used stalls along the railway despite earlier raids.[2]
He said police would keep raiding and hunting the suppliers.[2]
The suspects were held at the Jakarta Metro Police’s narcotics directorate, North Jakarta Metro Police chief Kombes Adhe Hariadi said.[4] Police were still questioning the 26 people detained in the raid.[6]
Sources
- Kampung Bahari Digerebek Besar-besaran, 29 Orang Diciduk dan Berbagai Jenis Narkoba Disita. Aktual.com, 1 November 2026. In Indonesian.
- 1.800 Polisi Kembali Gerebek Kampung Bahari Jakut, 26 Orang Ditangkap. Kompas.com, 1 November 2026. In Indonesian.
- Polisi dan BNN gerebek markas narkoba di Kampung Bahari Jakut. ANTARA News, 1 November 2026. In Indonesian.
- Gerebek Kampung Bahari, Polisi Tangkap 26 Orang dan Sita Senpi. VOI, 1 November 2026. In Indonesian.
- 1.800 Personel Polisi Gerebek Kampung Bahari Jakut, 26 Orang Ditangkap, Sabu, Ganja Hingga Ribuan Ekstasi Disita. Detik Suara Rakyat, 1 November 2026. In Indonesian.
- 搜查巴哈里村，警方逮捕26人，没收武器. VOI, 1 November 2026. In Chinese.
Open questions the AI reported
- The sources did not publish a weight for the cannabis, or a precise count of the ecstasy pills beyond 'thousands'.
- The submitted article and Kompas reported 26 people held; the drug squad director's final update, quoted by Aktual, put the count at 29.
- Reports differ on the size of the operation: ANTARA says 1,816 officers, while Kompas and the submitted article say 1,800.
- No names, formal charges or court step for the 29 detainees were reported.
- The submitted page's single image was a tall composite captioned only with a WhatsApp filename and carried no credit, so no media entry was made for it.
- Left out, as its quotation was not found in Kompas.com: Bismo called the stone-throwing an attempt to divert police from their targets.
- The VOI photo caption says 27 people were secured, while its article text says 26; the report uses the later count of 29.
- The Chinese-language version mistranslates sabu (methamphetamine) as heroin; the Indonesian original says police seized methamphetamine and cannabis.
