3 Months Moving, West Kalimantan Kemenkumham Officers Confiscate 236 HP From Pontianak Prison

West Kalimantan Ministry of Justice and Human Rights Regional Office officers destroy 236 cellphones (Photo: ANTARA)

PONTIANAK - West Kalimantan (West Kalimantan) Ministry of Law and Human Rights (West Kalimantan) Regional Office officers destroyed 236 cellphones resulting from raids and confiscations of prisoners in the Pontianak Penitentiary (LP), West Kalimantan.

"236 cellphones were confiscated from raids that we routinely carried out from January to March 2021 in the Class IIA Pontianak Prison," said Head of the Prison Division of the Kalbar Ministry of Law and Human Rights, Suprobowati in Pontianak, as reported by Antara, Thursday, March 18.

He explained that the destruction of confiscated goods in the form of cellphones was in order to prevent unwanted things.

"Apart from raiding and confiscating the cellphones belonging to the assisted residents, those who are caught having cellphones even though they are not for drug transactions, we still transfer them to other prisons, so they can have a deterrent effect," he said.

Because, according to him, if the assisted residents had been transferred, he would need time to adjust again.

"If indeed the violation is strong, it will be transferred to the Nusakambangan Prison, so that the assisted residents must think first before committing the violation so that they will not be given severe sanctions," he said.

Previously, he emphasized that two prisoners who were again involved in the transaction of methamphetamine-type narcotics on Trans Kalimantan Road, Ambawang River, Kubu Raya Regency, some time ago, were immediately moved to Nusakambangan Island.

"We have proposed a program for WBP involved in cases outside of detention centers or prisons such as the main suspects, namely WBP in Pontianak Class IIA Detention Center, namely Heru Susanto and Budiono, to be transferred to Nusakambangan," he said.

He explained that the WBP relocation program in West Kalimantan has been carried out since 2019 with a different number every year.

"In 2019 we have proposed 27 WBP to be transferred but from the West Kalimantan Police only received 15 WBP at that time. Then for 2020 we have moved 43 WBPs, and hopefully this year all of them can be moved because the Ministry of Law and Human Rights is now very supportive of anyone who is still involved in criminal networks outside detention centers or prison to be transferred to Nusakambangan, "he said.