The man who planted marijuana with plastic bags at his home turned out to be the younger brother of the former mayor of Serang.

KOMPAS.com – Muslim (50), a man who grows marijuana using polyethylene bag At his home, Kampung Cisirah, Cibahayu Village, Kadipaten District, Tasikmalaya Regency, West Java, turned out to be the younger brother of the former mayor of Serang.

“In fact, I am the younger brother of the former mayor of Serang, Bunyamin. But my brother died a long time ago in 2011. This is our parents’ house and he was here when he was a child,” Muslim told reporters after BNN officials from Tasikmalaya City will secure it on Tuesday (10/20/2020).

Muslim admits that his cannabis plant has been used as research for the cultivation of his fertilizer mix.

“Marijuana is my only research,” he said.

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Furthermore, Muslim admitted that the results of his research on ganjas are often sold to his friends at cockfighting stalls in northern Tasikmalaya.

“If I sell it to places where cockfighting goes and it’s out of town too,” he said.

Muslims also denied that he was secretly growing cannabis.

“Who said I was secretly, I have always been growing this cannabis,” he said.

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Still, Samsul said he was ready to take responsibility for the actions he had committed and asked the officers not to arrest those close to him.

“Let me be responsible,” he said.

Meanwhile, the head of the BNN of Tasikmalaya City, Tuteng Budiman, said his party was still conducting an investigation related to the case.

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The reason is that, according to the information of the suspects, they had planted marijuana in an open area of ​​1 hectare.

Currently, his party continues to request more information from the suspects.

“We are still developing it, because if we have planted it in polythene bags for years like this. Usually the suspect has planted in a wider area,” he said.

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(Contributing writer Tasikmalaya, Irwan Nugraha | Editor Aprillia Ika)