Revision Of Narcotics Law, Minister Of Law And Human Rights Yasonna Laoly Asks Drug Dealers To Be Impoverished

JAKARTA - Minister of Law and Human Rights, Yasonna H. Laoly, believes that drug dealers should be impoverished to have a deterrent effect. Rules for impoverishing drug dealers, he said, can be regulated firmly in the revision of Law (UU) No. 35 of 2009 concerning Narcotics.

"If in one prison there are users, there are airports, there are couriers, (so) markets, that's the law. Then the wearer must be eliminated (rehabilitated). The dealers are impoverished through TPPU (Money Laundering), maybe later the suggestion in the Narcotics Law is that (drug dealers) should be impoverished through TPPU. Should! So that he will have a deterrent effect", said Yasonna in a Working Meeting with House of Representatives Commission III on Wednesday, February 2.

"Well, hopefully, sir, it will be confirmed soon. I hope Commission III can do it", he continued.

The head of the Legal, Human Rights, and Legislation Division of the PDI-P fraction said that the plan to revise the Narcotics Law had been submitted to President Joko Widodo by letter in November 2021.

In the meeting, the Minister of Law and Human Rights conveyed the performance and achievements in 2021, as well as the work plan of the Ministry of Law and Human Rights in 2022.

According to Yasonna, narcotics rehabilitation services have been carried out through medical rehabilitation and social rehabilitation of drug-using prisoners with a target of 21,540 prisoners in 99 Correctional Technical Implementation Units.

The Ministry of Law and Human Rights also develops narcotics rehabilitation features in the correctional database system and improves the validity of information on narcotics crime information and narcotics precursors.

Actions for the Prevention and Eradication of Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking (P4GN) were also carried out, as well as data exchange through an integrated criminal justice system based on information technology.