In addition to destroying the fields, the police managed to thwart 529 kilograms of dried marijuana ready for distribution from the Aceh-Medan-Palembang-Jakarta-Bogor cannabis suppliers and collectors.
The Head of the Public Relations Division of the National Police, Inspector General Argo Yuwono, explained that this disclosure departed from the securing of 198 packets of dry marijuana weighing 223.95 kilograms of marijuana on June 9, 2021 as a result of the development of the Jakarta-Palembang-Medan distribution network.
"From the development team, on Thursday, June 24, 2021, they managed to secure four suspects with nine sacks of marijuana, containing 280 packages of marijuana weighing 3044.60 kilograms," said Argo in a written statement, Thursday (1/6).
The four suspects who were arrested had the initials IB (42), IS alias UC (44), MA (35), and RD (37). Argo revealed, the results of the investigation of the four suspects and information obtained from the public, the suspects turned out to have marijuana fields.
"The team then searched the Gunung Leuser area and found a seven-hectare marijuana field in the Beutong Ateuh Banggalang area, Ateuh Banggalan Regency, Nagan Raya Regency," said Argo.
This 7-hectare marijuana field can produce 630 thousand dried marijuana sticks with an estimated weight of 210.529 tons. If the market price of 1 kilogram of marijuana is IDR 4 million, then the value of the field is IDR 842 billion.
But what is more important than that, said Argo, is the destruction of marijuana fields by cutting trees and burning them
The National Police managed to save 10,526,450 lives of the nation's children.
"If 1 kg is consumed by 50 people, then 210,529 kg multiplied by 60 people, then 10,526,450 lives are saved from marijuana-type drug abuse," said Argo.
