Up in smoke: Indonesia burns mountain of marijuana | Inquirer News

Up in smoke: Indonesia burns mountain of marijuana

/ 07:36 PM December 27, 2018

This picture taken on April 26, 2018 shows an Indonesian policeman standing guard during a raid on a marijuana plantation in Indrapuri, Aceh province.  AFP

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia — A towering stack of marijuana that weighed a hefty 800 kilograms (1,760 pounds) went up in smoke Thursday as Indonesian police lit up the pungent contraband.

Authorities in the Muslim-majority nation’s Aceh province took a match to the bricks of pot and also destroyed some 19 kilogrammes of methamphetamine, seized in raids this year.

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Five drug suspects in bright-orange prison garb were paraded around the ceremony.

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Aceh is a deeply conservative region at the tip of Sumatra island that publicly whips criminals for a range of offences including gambling, drinking alcohol, and having gay sex or relations outside of marriage.

Indonesia also has some of the world’s strictest drug laws.

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This month, five foreigners were arrested in Bali for drug trafficking, with a German and Peruvian possibly facing execution if convicted. /ee

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