It Is Said That Human Cages Are Held At The Langkat Regent's House For The Development Of Victims, But Komnas HAM Does Not Find Treatment

JAKARTA - The Coordinator for Monitoring and Investigation of the National Human Rights Commission, Endang Sri Melani, admitted that she had not found any drug dependence treatment for the occupants of human cages at the house of the inactive Langkat Regent.

Even though this place is touted as a place of rehabilitation for people who are addicted to drugs. This finding was conveyed by Endang at the press conference 'Records of Human Cage Violence at the Residence of the Regent of Langkat Off' which was broadcast on the Indonesian National Human Rights Commission's Public Relations YouTube.

"There was no material or drug dependence rehabilitation treatment found for the inmates of the cage, including the handling or treatment of drug users," said Endang, Wednesday, March 2.

Endang said the residents were actually employed not only in the factory owned by Terbit and his family or in the oil palm plantation but as parking attendants, cleaning the factory, transporting palm fruit, and other jobs.

"Even the penghui are also used as construction workers to build houses belonging to Terbit Plan, including dredging the land around the cage location," he said.

Even though they have done this work, the residents do not get any wages. They also do not want to refuse for fear of violence from the management of the cage.

Furthermore, Komnas HAM revealed that the residents did receive health services from the local puskesmas where the head of the health facility was still from the Terbit family. The complaints submitted were itching, colds, dizziness, ulcers and also difficulty sleeping which were then given generic drugs.

"Regarding access to health services, we found that there are indeed health services carried out by the Puskesmas periodically one to two times a week," said Endang.

In fact, from this examination, health workers often find wounds on the occupants' body parts. However, out of fear, they often cover it up for other reasons.

"They admitted that only the injuries were caused by a fall or by scrapings due to a cold," he concluded.