83 Percent Of Prisoners In Palu Women's Prison Related To Drug Cases, Dominated By Economic Motive Dealers

Illustration. Prisoners are free from Pekanbaru Class IIA Women's Prison whose health is checked when COVID-19 spreads on Thursday, October 1, 2020. (Between-FB Anggoro)

Central Sulawesi (Sulteng) - Provincial National Narcotics Agency (BNNP) revealed that about 83 percent of inmates at the Palu Women's Correctional Institution (Lapas) stumbled on drug abuse cases. "Of the 178 inmates in the Palu Women's Prison, 83 percent were recorded as being caught in drug cases," said Head of the Central Sulawesi BNNP Brigadier General Pol Monang Situmorang in Palu, Central Sulawesi, Friday, August 4, confiscated by Antara. Monang revealed, from this percentage, Palu Women's Prison was recorded as a prison with the number of inmates with the highest narcotics abuse and trafficking cases in Indonesia. "This is the percentage, not the person, the prevalence of drugs in Central Sulawesi reaches 2.80 percent of the total population aged 15 to 64 years. If brought to the national level, Central Sulawesi is in fourth place," he said. Mohang said, female convicts who were caught in narcotics abuse cases in Palu as large as dealers for reasons of economic need. "Most of them are housewives and are dealers because of economic problems or solely because of money," he said.

Therefore, BNNP is rehabilitating users, counseling guidance, and empowerment as an effort to handle narcotics at the Palu Women's Prison. This step was taken, he said, to restore the psychological condition of female prisoners due to the impact of using these illicit goods. "This strategy is to change the behavior of prisoners so that they can be separated from drug dependence and start a better life," he said. To make prevention efforts effective, he said, the Central Sulawesi BNNP invited the public to play an active role in fighting drug trafficking by providing information to the authorities. "Convey information to us or the police regarding drug trafficking, we will definitely follow up," he said.