Talk:Cannabis in Acehnese cuisine

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Page scope

The page covers cannabis as an ingredient of food and drink in Aceh: the seasoning of dishes with ground seed, coffee mixed with cannabis, the palm-wine tonic, the written sources the informants point to, a name that misleads, and the cannabis sweets, coffees and milk made for sale in recent decades. Smoking, cultivation and law are on Aceh and Indonesia. Each named dish has its own page; the table in the Dishes section lists them.

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Discussion

Sources

Press: detikcom (2 July 2007), Merdeka.com (13 and 18 April 2017), CNN Indonesia (2 February 2020), The Sydney Morning Herald (11 January 2015), iNews.id (22 December 2020), Liputan6 (30 July 2023), ANTARA Jawa Timur (24 August 2022), The Jakarta Post via Asia News Network (24 May 2024).
Transnational Institute (2016), pp. 4 and 9. The 2006 seizure list on p. 9 cites, as note 39, an undated report of the national narcotics agency on alternative development for cannabis growers in Aceh. The year 2006 is the year of the seizures, not of that report.
Musanna, Nabilah and Suip (2024), Shahih 9(2), pp. 85, 90–91 and 93. Its interviews were in Banda Aceh, Bireuen and Aceh Besar.
Mohd Shafri and Nazarudin (2022), pp. 75 and 80, for the Tajul Muluk.

Where the sources disagree

The Tajul Muluk. Three accounts: a manuscript collector dates it to the 18th century; Mohd Shafri and Nazarudin give it as a compilation by Shaykh Isma'il al-'Asyi printed in Mecca in 1893; Musanna and colleagues attribute it to Tengku Cik Kutakarang, with Shaykh Ismail bin Abdul Muthallib al-'Asyi as its corrector. All three are given on the page. No text of the work has been cited here.
How much seed, and whether it matters. The correspondent and a restaurant owner quoted by Merdeka.com in 2017 say the seed was in most Acehnese cooking; a member of the Indonesian Gastronomy Association quoted in the same report says it was not in all of it and only in small amounts.
Sambal ganja. A 2019 food feature lists sambal among the foods said to use cannabis and calls the Acehnese sambal ganja well known. Liputan6 (2023) and ANTARA (2022) say sambal ganja contains none and explain the name. The page gives the latter, since they describe the recipe.

Not used

De Sumatra Post of 26 November 1924 reports, from the opium administration's annual report, that Klingalese and Bengalis used the plant in soup as an aperitif. The newspaper's extract concerns Deli, and the sentence does not place the use in Aceh, so it is not on this page.
Heyne's De nuttige planten van Nederlandsch-Indië (2nd edition, 1927), under Cannabis sativa, has the plant in most divisions of Aceh and gandja smoked on Sumatra as a cigarette. It gives no food use, so nothing from it is on this page.
Musanna and colleagues (2024) state that the Tajul Muluk prescribes boiled cannabis root for diabetes. For this they cite a 2021 conference paper on medical-cannabis law, not the text, so the claim is not used.
Musanna and colleagues, p. 90, repeat without attribution the opening of the CNN Indonesia report of 2 February 2020. That passage is not cited from the study.
The 2006 seizure list's meatball soup, peanut sauce, curry and fried noodles are not named dishes, so they have no pages of their own.
Meuseukat, the plain Acehnese dodol, is not described with cannabis in any source cited here.

Open items

Burkill's Dictionary of the Economic Products of the Malay Peninsula (1935) has not been consulted.
A readable text of the Tajul Muluk would allow its cannabis passages to be cited directly.
The table lists preparation pages with Indonesia as their country. All of them are Acehnese at present; if a page from elsewhere in Indonesia is written, the query needs a narrower condition.