1,300 High-Risk Convicts Now Inhabit Nusakambangan

Illustration of criminals arrested (VOI)

JAKARTA - Director General of Corrections (Dirjenpas) Mashudi said there were already 1,300 high risk or high risk convicts who were transferred to the Nusakambangan Super Maximum Security Prison, Central Java.

He said that this week 196 inmates were transferred to Nusakambangan. According to him, many prisoners have been transferred since under the leadership of the Minister of Immigration and Corrections Agus Andrianto.

"This is not only about our commitment to eradicate drugs and cellphones, this is also our effort to provide proper guidance for our inmates," said Mashudi, quoted by ANTARA on Sunday, August 24.

The transfer of 196 prisoners this week, including inmates from the Riau Islands (57), West Java (55), Jambi (33), West Sumatra (4), North Sumatra (6), South Sumatra (21) and Riau (3), on August 22 and 23, 1025.

"So that when it's time to return to society they have recovered mentally and behaviorally, because that's one of the goals of the correctional system," he said.

He said the escort and transfer process was carried out with a team from the Intelligence and Internal Security of the Directorate General of Corrections with the police and correctional officers in each region.

Residents of high risk inmates who were transferred to Nusakambangan, he said, were placed in several Super Maximum and Maximum Security Prisons. They, he said, would receive special guidance and security according to the categories of the results of the assessment.

"Our target and hope is that Nusakambangan will form them into better citizens," he said.