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View all search resultsThe decision to launch the retraining initiative comes amid heightened scrutiny of Indonesia’s correctional system, after it was revealed that actor Ammar Zoni, currently serving a four-year sentence at Salemba Penitentiary in Central Jakarta for narcotics related charges, was allegedly involved in drug trafficking inside the facility, along with five other inmates.
As many as 15 drug convicts have been transferred from Kerobokan penitentiary in Bali to the maximum security Nusakambangan prison island in Cilacap, Central Java as part of efforts to clean up penitentiaries of alleged drug trafficking business by inmates.
Around 60 drug convicts serving long prison terms and life imprisonment, as well as those on death row, were transferred to super maximum security prisons following the escape of Chinese drug convict Cai Changpan from the Tangerang penitentiary.
A drug convict, identified only as AU, 42, is set to be detained in a “super maximum security” prison after being caught producing ecstasy pills in the VVIP room of a private hospital in Central Jakarta.
Law and Human Rights Minister Yasonna H. Laoly is aiming for the construction of a supermax prison on Nusakambangan Island in Central Java to be finished this year, even though the work has only progressed to 40 percent of completion so far.
Nusakambangan prison island, located in the Indian Ocean in Central Java, is set to welcome 155 terrorism detainees transferred from the Mobile Brigade headquarters (Mako Brimob) detention center in Kelapa Dua, Depok, West Java, following Tuesday's prison riot.
All 155 prisoners who surrendered after rioting at the Mobile Brigade headquarters (Mako Brimob) detention center in Depok, West Java, are on their way to Nusakambangan Penitentiary on an island in the Indian Ocean in Central Java, the police said Thursday.
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