Five hectares of cannabis burned after seven-hour trek on Tor Sihite
A 90-person team from BNN and North Sumatra police destroyed about five hectares of cannabis on Tor Sihite in Mandailing Natal on 31 October 2026 after a tip and a seven-hour hike. Officers uprooted and burned the crop at two nearby sites; no growers were arrested.
🇮🇩 Tor Sihite, Mandailing Natal, North Sumatra · Indonesia
- Plants destroyed
- 150,000
- Hectares
- 5
- Cannabis
- 3 t
After a public tip on 26 October 2026, Badan Narkotika Nasional (BNN) and police teams in
Mandailing Natal regency, North Sumatra, hiked about seven hours through steep mountain terrain
to cannabis plots hidden on Tor Sihite and destroyed them on 31 October.[1][2] No growers were
named or arrested in either account.[1][2]
BNNK Mandailing Natal head Syamsul Arifin said officers verified the crop during a follow-up
investigation before BNN North Sumatra ordered a joint destruction involving about 90 personnel
from provincial police, the regency BNN office, the army, local government and community
volunteers.[1] Comb Pol Josua Tampubolon of BNN North Sumatra said the team found two nearby
sites totalling five hectares—4.5 hectares plus half a hectare ten metres apart—and uprooted
about 150,000 plants before burning them on the spot.[2] AnalisaDaily put the fields at roughly
1,170 metres elevation with about 50 by 50 centimetre spacing and a preliminary estimate of
about three tonnes of potential production.[1]
The regency police chief, AKBP Bagus Priyandi, took part alongside provincial drug directors,
according to AnalisaDaily.[1] Mistar.id said the team walked about 14 hours in slippery rain
on the round trip.[2]
Sources
- Tempuh 7 Jam ke Lokasi, 5 Hektare Ladang Ganja Dimusnahkan di Madina. AnalisaDaily, 1 November 2026. In Indonesian.
- BNNP Sumut dan Poldasu Temukan 5 Hektare Ladang Ganja di Gunung Tor Sihite Madina. Mistar.id, 1 November 2026. In Indonesian.
Open questions the AI reported
- AnalisaDaily reports destruction on 1 November 2026 after a tip on 26 October, while Mistar.id dates the find to the early hours of 31 October; the event date follows the latter account of when plants were destroyed.
- AnalisaDaily estimates about three tonnes of potential production at 50 by 50 cm spacing; Mistar.id counts about 150,000 plants at 75 cm spacing and a rough 30-tonne gross conversion the BNN official offered, not a weighed total.
- Neither outlet names anyone arrested or lists separate weights for the two plots beyond the 4.5 and 0.5 hectare split in Mistar.id.
- Mistar.id places the site at Desa Rao Rao; AnalisaDaily does not name the village.
