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JAKARTA, Dec 5, 2007 (AFP) - Indonesian police have seized 20,000 marijuana plants, the equivalent of six tonnes of the drug, during a 10-day operation in westernmost Aceh province, they said Wednesday.
Indradi Thanos, director of narcotics at the national police headquarters, said some of the haul would have ended up abroad.
"The marijuana was to be marketed inside and outside Aceh. Some of the marijuana would have been sent abroad via Malaysia," he told AFP.
Twelve Indonesians had recently been caught in the neighbouring nation in possession of the drug, he noted.
The plants were found in coastal Bireun district, said Danu Kusworo, the district's deputy police chief.
"Some 160 Aceh police personnel and 30 officers from BNN (the National Narcotics Board) worked together in the operation," which began November 22, he said.
Jodi Heriyadi, Aceh police spokesman, told AFP that six men believed only to be security guards were arrested and that the case was still being investigated.
Indonesia seized a total of 22.8 tonnes of marijuana for all of 2005, according to latest figures available on the UN Office on Drugs and Crime website.
Marijuana, though illegal in Indonesia, is traditionally used in curries and even coffee in staunchly Muslim Aceh.
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