90 Percent Of Convicts Participating In Drug Rehabilitation In Salemba Prison Are Methamphetamine Users

Prisoners or inmates undergoing rehabilitation at the Salemba Rutan, Central Jakarta/ Photo: Rizky Sulistio/ VOI

JAKARTA - Head of the BNN Rehabilitation Division of DKI Jakarta Province, Dr. Nadia, said that of the hundreds of inmates (WBP) or inmates who were undergoing rehabilitation at the Class 1A Prison in Central Jakarta or the Salemba Prison, the dependence was dominated by narcotics type methamphetamine.

"The trend is methamphetamine or amphetamines, almost all of them (users) are methamphetamine", Nadia told VOI on Monday, February 14.

The assessment carried out by the DKI Jakarta Provincial National Narcotics Agency (BNNP) at the Salemba Prison is medical rehabilitation. This step is an effort to break the chain of drug use, reduce the impact of drug users and reduce drug addiction. It is hoped that the prisoners can change their behavior and not use drugs anymore.

"The plan is for 300 WBP to be assessed, but it will be carried out in stages. Now there are 50 Correctional Inmates (WBP) or prisoners being assessed", he said.

In addition to methamphetamine users, he continued, inmates who took part in rehabilitation were also addicted to marijuana and synthetic marijuana.

"Maybe there are only 1-2 that currently have synthetic marijuana or marijuana, others have almost 90 percent more (addicted to) methamphetamine", he said.

Meanwhile, from the confession of Ferdi, one of the prisoners who participated in rehabilitation, he had been a user of methamphetamine for almost five years. After he was in the Salemba Prison, he began to follow a medical rehabilitation program.

"Almost a month into rehab, Alhamdulillah there has been a change for the better. He has been using drugs for almost 5 years, using methamphetamine", said the man who was sentenced to 6 years in prison for the narcotics case to VOI.