Menkumham Yasonna Value Of The Correctional Law Will Strengthen Systems, Here's The Reason

Menkumham Yasonna H. Laoly/photo: Antara

JAKARTA - Minister of Law and Human Rights (Menkumham) Yasonna H. Laoly emphasized that the ratification of the Correctional Law (RUU) is a law to strengthen the correctional system in Indonesia. "This law is expected to strengthen its realization and the implementation of restorative justice that is contained in the juvenile criminal justice system and the renewal of national criminal law," said Minister of Law and Human Rights Yasonna H Laoly in a written statement received in Jakarta, Thursday, July 7. Thus, continued Yasonna, prisons are no longer only in the final stages of the criminal justice system, but have worked since the start of the criminal justice process. The Professor of Criminology at the High School of Police Science said correction is an important part that cannot be separated from the integrated criminal justice system. The integrated criminal justice system (integrated criminal justice system) carries out law enforcement in the field of treatment of prisoners, children, and inmates in the pre-adjudication, adjudication, and post-adjudication stages. Correctional implementation as part of the integrated criminal justice system is based on a prison system which is an arrangement on the direction, and an integrated method of implementing correctional functions. "That's between correctional officers, detainees, children, inmates, and the community," said the Minister of Law and Human Rights.

As a system, Yasonna said, treatment of prisoners, children, and inmates is carried out through prison functions which include services, guidance, social guidance, care, security and observation by upholding the respect for protection and fulfillment of human rights. This is in accordance with the convention against torture and treatment or other cruel punishments or punishments, inhumane, or degrading human dignity. "This convention has also been ratified by Indonesia with the birth of Law Number 5 of 1998," he said. DPR RI previously ratified the Correctional Bill into law during the second level of discussion at the plenary meeting.