75 Percent Of Prisoners In NTT Child Rape Cases

Head of the NTT Provincial Kemenkumham Regional Office Marciana Jone (Photo; Doc Antara)

JAKARTA - The case of child rape in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) is quite high. In fact, 75 percent of all prisoners in the area are caught in cases of sexual violence against children.

"The case of sexual abuse and rape of children is one of the biggest cases in NTT, therefore the perpetrators must be given intensive guidance," said Head of the Regional Office of the Ministry of Law and Human Rights (Kemenkumham), East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), Marciana Jone, quoted from Antara, Monday 20 July.

In order to provide a deterrent effect and provide guidance to the prisoner, his party plans to transfer the prisoner to the Nusakambangan prison, Cilacap, Central Java.

"In the future, we will make efforts so that the perpetrators of rape and sexual abuse of minors can also be transferred to receive intensive training at the Nusakambangan prison," he said.

Before making the transfer, his party will submit an application to the NTT Provincial Government. According to him, if it is approved, then his party will make a transfer.

NTT Deputy Governor Josef Nae Soi said that his party supports if convicts of sexual violence against minors are also transferred to Nusakambangan Prison, as was done with inmates in cases of cattle theft.

He admitted that he had coordinated with the Ministry of Women and Child Protection so that convicts of cases of rape of minors were transferred to Nusakambangan.

"In principle there must be a deterrent effect, if it is not deterred then it must be moved so that it can be specially coached and become better," he said.