JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Mahfud MD said the Adhyaksa Narcotics, Psychotropic and Addictive Substances Rehabilitation Center supports the application of restorative justice in narcotics crime cases.

"I would like to underline that the establishment of the Adhyaksa Rehabilitation Center is an application of restorative justice, which is not only regulated at a mere normative and conceptual level, but also directly benefits the community," said Mahfud when inaugurating the Adhyaksa Drug Rehabilitation Center in Bandung, West Java. Between, Friday, July 1st.

In his statement, Mahfud said the prosecutor's office had started a historic milestone and any party could facilitate the establishment of a rehabilitation center as a joint effort to save the younger generation.

"I hope that this rehabilitation center is supported by regional governments throughout Indonesia as an implementation effort and becomes a contribution to drug users and victims of drug abuse," said Mahfud.

Rehabilitation is to restore narcotics abusers with the hope that after completing rehabilitation, the abuser can recover from dependence on narcotics, recover physically, mentally, and can be accepted back in his social environment.

Mahfud explained that based on data from the Correctional Database System (SDP) of the Directorate General of Corrections (Ditjenpas) of the Ministry of Law and Human Rights as of June 2022, residents in prisons and state detention centers in Indonesia reached 278,487 people with the capacity of prisons and detention centers. in Indonesia can only accommodate 132,107 people.

In other words, the occupancy rate of prisons and detention centers reaches 211 percent of their supposed capacity. Meanwhile, narcotics convicts are the biggest contributor to prison and remand center residents, namely 138,501 prisoners/convicts or 49.7 percent.

"The overcapacity phenomenon causes the function of coaching for inmates to be not optimal and indirectly has an impact on the imbalance between the number of officers/security personnel in prisons with the number of prison residents," said Mahfud.

Furthermore, Attorney General Sanitiar Burhanuddin held a virtual interactive dialogue with the South Sulawesi High Prosecutor's Office, the Aceh High Prosecutor's Office, and the Sumenep District Attorney.

In his dialogue, the Attorney General said that the most important thing is to humanize victims and drug users. In its implementation, it involves medical personnel to monitor the physical and mental health of users.

"Those who are victims do not have a negative stigma in the community. In the future, they should work together with the Job Training Center (BLK) and the ulama so that they can be healed spiritually," said the Attorney General.

There are 10 adhyaksa rehabilitation centers, namely in the jurisdiction of the Aceh High Prosecutor's Office, the Riau Islands High Prosecutor's Office, the Bangka Belitung High Prosecutor's Office, the Banten High Prosecutor's Office, the West Java High Prosecutor's Office, the DI Yogyakarta High Prosecutor's Office, the East Java High Prosecutor's Office, the West Kalimantan High Prosecutor's Office, the High Prosecutor's Office. Central Kalimantan, Central Sulawesi High Prosecutor's Office, and South Sulawesi High Prosecutor's Office.

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