In Front Of The DPR, Menkumham Yasonna: Drug Dealers Must Be Impoverished

Minister of Law and Human Rights (Menkumham) Yasonna Hamonangan Laoly during a working meeting with Commission III of the DPR RI. ANTARA/HO-Humas Kemenkumham

JAKARTA - Minister of Law and Human Rights (Menkumham) Yasonna Hamonangan Laoly emphasized that drug dealers must be impoverished.

"Users must be eliminated in the sense of being rehabilitated, while the city is impoverished through money laundering. Perhaps the proposal is in the Narcotics Law, yes," said Minister of Law and Human Rights Yasonna H. Laoly during a working meeting with Commission III of the Indonesian House of Representatives in Jakarta, reported by the Jakarta Post. Between, Wednesday, February 2nd.

On that basis, Yasonna hopes that the rules for impoverishing drug dealers can be regulated strictly in the revision of Law Number 35 of 2009 concerning Narcotics.

"This is to deter him. I hope Commission III of the DPR RI can do it," said Yasonna.

The Professor of Criminology at the Police Science College said that the planned revision of the Narcotics Law had been submitted to President Joko Widodo by letter in November 2021. In a working meeting with Commission III of the Indonesian House of Representatives, the Ministry of Law and Human Rights also discussed the ministry's performance and achievements in 2021, including a work plan by 2022.

One of them, the Ministry of Law and Human Rights has carried out narcotics rehabilitation services through medical rehabilitation and social rehabilitation of drug-using prisoners with a target of 21,540 prisoners in 99 correctional technical implementing units.

Not only that, the Ministry of Law and Human Rights is also developing narcotics rehabilitation features in the correctional database system, as well as increasing the validity of information on narcotics crime information and narcotics precursors.

In addition, prevention and eradication of drug abuse and illicit trafficking (P4GN), as well as data exchange through an integrated criminal justice system based on information technology.