Regarding The Anti-torture Convention, The DKI Kumham Regional Office Ensures That Prisoners In Jakarta Are Free From Implementation

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JAKARTA - The Regional Office of the Ministry of Law and Human Rights (Kanwil Kumham) DKI Jakarta ensures that all prisons, detention centers and detention centers in DKI are free from acts of torture and demeaning human dignity.

"We have confirmed that there will be no incidents of torture against prisoners or prisoners in prisons, detention centers and detention rooms of the immigration office and the Jakarta Immigration Detention Center (Rudenim)," said Head of the DKI Jakarta Ministry of Law and Human Rights Regional Office Ibnu Chuldun when confirmed, Wednesday, June 7, confiscated by Antara.

The affirmation was in response to the instructions of the Directorate General of Human Rights of the Ministry of Law and Human Rights regarding the implementation of the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Human or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Convention or the Anti-Terrorism and Treatment of Other Cruel, Not Humane, Or Lowering Human Dignity.

Ibnu said that activities in prisons and detention centers aimed at giving awareness and willingness to inmates to return to society in a orderly and disciplined manner so that torture or acts of degrading human dignity were not the right way to realize these goals.

In the Rudenim it is the same, he said, immigrants who come to Indonesia, but violate immigration rules are still treated with respect, until these foreign nationals are able to return to their home countries.

The Head of the Regional Office of the Ministry of Law and Human Rights of DKI said that the implementation of the Anti-torture Convention was deemed necessary in carrying out duties and functions, especially regarding humanity.

Ibnu also emphasized to the Head of the Correctional, Detention Center and Rudenim Technical Implementation Unit to balance the main tasks and functions with the principles approved by the government during the convention.

In Indonesia, the convention in question has been ratified in Law Number 5 of 1998 concerning Conventions Against Torture and Treatment or Other Cruel, Not Humane, Or Lowering Human dignity.

State parties in the anti-torture convention are obliged to meet the principles in national development programs, to prepare periodic reports to the anti-torture committee (CAT).