BNN and Aceh police destroy 35 hectares of cannabis at Lamteuba
Indonesia’s BNN, led by chief Anang Iskandar, burned cannabis across 35 hectares at Pulo Kemukiman Lamteuba on 13 May 2013 after mapping 18 cultivation sites; tip-offs from local residents had prompted the operation and no grower was arrested.
🇮🇩 Pulo Kemukiman Lamteuba, Seulimeum, Aceh Besar, Aceh · Indonesia
Badan Narkotika Nasional (BNN), Indonesia’s national narcotics board, destroyed 35 hectares of
cannabis at Pulo Kemukiman Lamteuba in Seulimeum district, Aceh Besar, on Monday 13 May 2013.[1]BNN chief Anang Iskandar said residents had tipped the agency off about the fields, and that the find
showed public willingness to report cultivation in Aceh.[1]
Mapping then burning
After the tip, BNN coordinated with Aceh provincial police and the national geospatial agency; on
5 May teams mapped 18 cannabis plots covering 35 hectares.[1]Officers from BNN and Aceh police
then uprooted and burned the plants; JPNN reported that Anang Iskandar spoke at the site about
switching growers to legal crops such as patchouli, jabon and turmeric through alternative
development.[1][2]
BNN said the plants were about two metres tall and five months old, close to harvest, but no owner
was caught.[1]Anang Iskandar told JPNN that eradication and arrests would continue alongside
community programmes so farmers would not rely on cannabis.[2]The opened accounts give no arrest
count for this burn.[1][2]
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BNN said plants averaged two metres tall and about five months old, meaning the crop was harvest-ready, but the opened reports give no plant count or weight estimate for the 35 hectares.
Mapping on 5 May 2013 found 18 plots totalling 35 hectares, including patches of 7.5 and 2.5 hectares; the sources name no owners and report no arrests during the burn.
Anang Iskandar said eradication would continue alongside alternative-development crops such as patchouli, jabon and turmeric; the opened stories do not say how many farmers enrolled locally in 2013.
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.
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