Posts with tag: Prisons

Decriminalising drug use would help stop corrupt police narcotics trafficking

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Indonesia's harsh criminal approach to personal drug use only benefits major dealers and corrupt officials.

Between punishment and rehabilitation: the government’s half-hearted approach to drug use

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More than half of inmates in Indonesian prisons are drug convicts. It is hard to imagine how the Ministry of Law and Human Rights can provide rehabilitation services for them all.

Will Covid-19 help corruptors get out of jail?

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Minister of Law and Human Rights Yasonna Laoly has tried at least five times to grant greater leniency to corruption convicts. Leopold Sudaryono writes that this time, while energies are focused on the coronavirus pandemic, corruptors and their allies may get their way.

Indonesia’s prison overcrowding crisis: Criminal Code delay a chance to fix it?

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While the draft revised criminal code was widely criticised for its potential to lead to over-criminalisation, M Doddy Kusadrianto writes that it also contained progressive approaches to sentencing that could have helped tackle prison overcrowding.

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