Remissions Will Be Maximized So That Prisons Are No Longer Overcrowded

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Law and Human Rights will maximize the policy of granting remissions to prisoners. The goal is to be able to overcome the advantages of people in each correctional institution.

This was said by the Director of Prisoners' Development and Production Job Training, Directorate General of Corrections, Thurman Saud Marojahan Hutapea, as one of the solutions to overcome excess capacity in prisons.

"Ditjenpas has optimized the granting of remissions, there are general remissions, special remissions, elderly remissions, permanent illness remissions, children's remissions, and decade remissions for general crimes," said Thurman Saud Marojahan Hutapea, Saturday, November 27.

He explained this in a national webinar entitled "Justice with Pancasila Law in Renewing the Criminal and Correctional System in Indonesia" which was broadcast live on the Official YouTube channel of the Faculty of Law, Diponegoro University, monitored from Jakarta, quoted from Antara.

Through optimizing the granting of remissions, continued Thurman, it is hoped that the rights of the inmates will not be neglected as long as they meet the requirements specified in the regulations to obtain remissions.

In addition to these steps, according to Thurman, Ditjenpas also makes other efforts to overcome the problem of "over" or excess capacity in prisons.

The next effort is to optimize the provision of parole (PB), conditional leave (CB), leave before release (CMB), and home assimilation, namely fostering prisoners by integrating them into community life in the home environment.

Ditjenpas also intensifies coordination with law enforcement agencies to implement restorative justice, namely the fair settlement of cases by emphasizing recovery as before.

Then, there are also steps to build new prisons and increase residential capacity according to the government's budget.

"We have also redistributed convicts from prisons that have extraordinary overcapacity to prisons where it is possible that they can still accommodate them," added Thurman.

Previously, it was known that prisons in Indonesia had problems with overcapacity. Based on data from the Ditjenpas Kemenkumham as of March 2021, it was recorded that the total prison occupants reached 255,435 people, while the capacity was only able to accommodate as many as 135,647 people.

From this data, it means that prisons in Indonesia are overcapacity as much as 88 percent of the existing capacity.