JAKARTA - Human Rights Minister (HAM) Natalius Pigai believes that the 44,000 prisoners who receive amnesty will change their mindset from criminal to humanist with human rights education that will be provided by the Ministry of Human Rights.

"That's our obligation [to provide human rights education]. The matter will change completely and so on, not necessarily can, yes, thank God [if it changes]. However, I'm sure 99 percent changes," Pigai said in response to ANTARA when met at the Ministry of Human Rights Office, Jakarta, Friday.

The Ministry of Human Rights plans to provide human rights education to prisoners who are granted amnesty by the President of the Republic of Indonesia Prabowo Subianto. The human rights education aims to change the mindset of prisoners before returning to the community.

In order to support human rights education, the Ministry of Human Rights has launched a pocket book on human rights entitled Correctional Inmates through the granting of the Indonesian Presidential Amnesty. The book will later be distributed to correctional institutions (prisons), where prisoners who are granted amnesty serve prison terms.

"We made 44,000 pocket books, and we will collect each in one place, each correctional institution. Who has passed the assessment by the Ministry of Law, we will visit the prison later. If there are 200 or 500 people, we teach: we must not steal this, violate this human rights violation, violates human rights," he said.

The pocket book of human rights for prisoners who will receive amnesty was launched during the Coordination Meeting of the Ministry of Human Rights for Fiscal Year 2025. The book consists of four chapters, namely What Is Human Rights?, Acts of Violation of Human Rights, Rights and Obligations of Inmates, and the Rights and Obligations of Citizens.

The pocket book of human rights, he said, was prepared to provide a comprehensive understanding of the principles of human rights that are universal, inseparable, and relevant to the implementation of state obligations in respecting, protecting, and fulfilling human rights.

Through the book, he hopes that readers will gain more insight into the importance of respect for human dignity, both in the global context and in its implementation in Indonesia.

"We are targeting human rights awareness education for 44,000 prisoners who will be granted amnesty, and today I have launched a human rights pocket book," Pigai said in Jakarta, Wednesday, January 22.


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