Commission XIII Of The House Of Representatives Considers Corruptor Prisons On Remote Islands To Solve Prison Overcapacity Solutions

JAKARTA - Chairman of Commission XIII DPR Willy Aditya responded to President Prabowo Subianto's plan to imprison corruptors on remote islands.

According to him, this plan is a solution to revitalize the Correctional Institutions, which currently have a lot of excess capacity.

"If we look at the existence of 525 prison locations and detention centers currently in 33 Correctional Regional Offices, there is an overcapacity of more than 100 percent. This means that we really need a method of reducing it. It is possible that from 17,000 islands in our area it can indeed be a solution," said Willy Aditya, Tuesday, March 18.

In addition, according to him, President Prabowo's statement needs to be widely responded to, not only the issue of punishment for corrupt convicts but also in the framework of improving the prison system.

Willy explained that currently, the inmates of corrupt cases occupy the second highest position in the number of special criminal convicts who occupy various prisons and detention centers in Indonesia. There are 5,196 residents assisted in corruption cases throughout Indonesia today.

"This number is much smaller than the number of residents assisted in the murder case of 5,266. In fact, it is much smaller than the combination of 122,186 assisted residents," he explained.

Based on existing data, Willy continued, there were more than 1,100 inmates who were sentenced to death or life because there were only 5 people, 486 were killed, while there were more than 1,100 people.

What the President said was how the management of correctional institutions could be humane, including corrupt convicts and other inmates. In the Aceh Regional Office, for example, it could be added to the construction of new prisons among the 363 small islands that exist, in North Sumatra it can be chosen from 229 islands. For Java, for example, it can be built on islands in Lampung, or NTB, and others," he said.

He emphasized the importance of the principle of correction in handling inmates, including corruptors. Namely efforts to improve criminal behavior to be able to re-integrate with the community.

Willy assessed that isolation to remote islands would only limit physical body freedom. However, he said, this must be accompanied by efforts to prevent humanitarian vulnerability.

"The coaching programs for prisoners, regardless of the case, are very important so that they are ready to return to the community when the sentence has been completed. Punishing in remote places should not be a form of additional punishment outside the court's decision," said Willy.

Therefore, Willy asked the technical ministry to immediately conduct a comprehensive study to follow up on the proposal submitted by the president. "Because this idea came from the President, the technical ministry should also be able to immediately prepare with a comprehensive study," he concluded.