Preventing The Practice Of Selling And Buying Rooms In Prisons, Legal Experts Suggest To Kemenkumham Actively Perform Officer Rotation

Constitutional Law expert from the Faculty of Law, University of Indonesia (FHUI) Heru Susetyo (far right). (AMONG)

JAKARTA - Constitutional law expert from the Faculty of Law, University of Indonesia (FHUI), Heru Susetyo, suggested that the Ministry of Law and Human Rights should not take too long to place prison officers in prisons. This schedule arrangement is to prevent the practice of buying and selling rooms.

"Perhaps people or their officers should not stay in the same place for too long because it is dangerous," said Heru Susetyo when contacted in Jakarta, Antara, Friday, February 11.

This was conveyed by Heru in response to the alleged practice of buying and selling rooms for inmates in prisons. Cases of alleged buying and selling of rooms in prisons could have happened because an officer had been in that section for too long.

The rotation is also not only focused on the island of Java. In other words, it must be spread to other areas. In fact, there is a possibility or potential for someone to want to stay on duty in Java and thus commit bribes. As a result, later on he tried to return the money in the wrong way.

"So it's a vicious circle like that," he said.

On the one hand, he provides a solution to prevent the practice of buying and selling rooms for prisoners, namely by increasing the welfare of officers.

However, if the performance allowance has been made by the government, but the practice of buying and selling still occurs, then there is something wrong with the officers.

In addition, Heru also encouraged the Ministry of Law and Human Rights to strengthen the education of prospective prison officers since they were still at the academy level.

In criminology, he said, crimes such as buying and selling rooms in prisons occur because of weak supervision and the presence of vulnerable victims and supportive situations.