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150 inmates freed after receiving remissions in S. Sulawesi
As many as 3,344 adult and child prisoners in South Sulawesi received sentence remissions on Indonesia’s 71st Independence Day.
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Flying free — People raise red-and-white flags on flagpoles in the sea using flyboards, at Losari Beach in Makassar, South Sulawesi. On Wednesday’s Independence Day, 150 inmates in the province were freed after receiving sentence remissions. (thejakartapost.com/Andi Hajramurni)
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s many as 3,344 adult and child prisoners in South Sulawesi received sentence remissions on Indonesia’s 71st Independence Day. They are currently serving sentences in nine penitentiaries, 15 state detention houses and one military correctional facility across the province.
Of the total, 150 inmates were released immediately after receiving their sentence remissions on Wednesday. They were all convicted of general crimes.
An inmate identified as Efendi, 36, said he was happy and grateful for receiving a sentence remission. “Today’s Independence Day celebration means a lot to me because I received a one-month remission. I’m free now. I thank God because I can reunite with my family and go back to work,” he told The Jakarta Post at the Class I Gunungsari prison in Makassar on Wednesday. The construction worker was sentenced to eight months in prison for attacking people.
Sahabuddin Kilkodo, the head of the Law and Human Rights Ministry in South Sulawesi, explained that the 3,344 inmates had received sentence remissions of between one and six months.
Sahabuddin said his office had also submitted sentence remission requests for special crime convicts, such as those serving time for corruption, terrorism, human trafficking and money laundering. Most of them were sentenced to more than five years in prison. However, he said the requests had not yet been approved by the Law and Human Rights Ministry in Jakarta.
“We have proposed sentence remissions for 237 inmates convicted of special crimes but until today, there has been no decree from the law and human rights minister [Yasonna Laoly],” said Sahabuddin. (ebf)
