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Papua to build prison for women, children
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In celebration: Inmates sing and dance after receiving Independence Day sentence remissions at the Class II B Sorong Penitentiary in Sorong city, West Papua, on Aug.17. (Antara/Olha Mulalinda)
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he Law and Human Rights Ministry’s Papua office has developed plans to build a penitentiary for women and children in Keerom regency.
“We have received the greenlight from the Keerom administration. We were provided with 5 hectares of land, the certificate of which will be finalized today [Friday],” head of the Law and Human Rights Ministry’s Papua office, Abner Banosro, said in Jayapura as quoted by Antara news agency.
“We will submit the land certificate from the Keerom administration to the ministry, so that we can receive the funds to [build the penitentiary],” he went on.
Abner said his office would approach ministry officials in Jakarta to request for funds from the State Budget this year.
“Both construction and operation of the women and children’s penitentiary will start in 2018,” he added.
For the time being, his office is entrusting juvenile inmates with the Class II A Abepura Penitentiary in Jayapura city.
“For female prisoners, we have temporarily placed them in the Doyo Baru Narcotics Prison in Sentani, Jayapura,” he said. (yon/ebf)
