Minister Yasonna's Subordinates Sent To Palembang Prison To Investigate News That Prisoners Control Drug Business

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JAKARTA - The Regional Office of the Ministry of Law and Human Rights in South Sumatra has dispatched a team to investigate allegations that inmates at the Palembang Red Eye Prison, SZ, are controlling drug trafficking from behind bars.

"Currently, a team has been dispatched to the Red Eyes Prison to examine inmates SZ and other inmates to reveal the truth about controlling drug trafficking from the prison", said the Head of the Correctional Division of the South Sumatra Ministry of Law and Human Rights, Bambang, Tuesday, July 19, quoted from Antara.

This issue arose when the Prabumulih Police team investigated a drug trafficking case in its jurisdiction some time ago.

When the information developed, his party responded quickly by forming a team to find out the truth even though there had not been a request for an examination of the SZ prisoner from the Prabumulih Police investigator.

"If it is true that SZ is involved in controlling drug trafficking in the Prabumulih City area, then the ranks of the South Sumatra Ministry of Law and Human Rights Regional Office are ready to synergize with the Prabumulih Police", he said.

He explained that his party has a strong commitment to eradicating the illicit trafficking of narcotics in prisons and state detention centers in the South Sumatra region.

In the context of preventing abuse and illicit trafficking of narcotics, his party has conducted periodic searches through the internal compliance team of the South Sumatra Ministry of Law and Human Rights and the ranks of prisons and remand centers.

Then, he said, routinely and suddenly carried out urine tests on employees and correctional inmates at 26 Correctional Technical Implementation Units (UPT).

In addition, his party has signed cooperation on the prevention, eradication, abuse, and illicit trafficking of narcotics (P4GN) with officials from the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) of South Sumatra Province, and transferred 35 WBP to prisons with high-level security in Nusakambangan, said Bambang.