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The Star
10 hours ago
- Politics
- The Star
Indonesia to build super-maximum security prison on remote island
- Illustrative photo: Antara file JAKARTA: (Bernama-Xinhua) Indonesian Minister of Immigration and Corrections Agus Andrianto has said that the government is preparing to build a new super-maximum security prison on a remote island as part of broader reforms to the country's correctional system, Xinhua reported. "The president aspires to build a modern correctional institution with super maximum security, located on a remote island. It is now being prepared," he said on Wednesday (June 25) during a visit to a prison in Medan, North Sumatra province. As part of wider efforts to improve the correctional system, Andrianto said that the government plans to build 13 new prisons across the country, which are expected to be operational by the end of this year. He noted that the move aims to address the long-standing issue of prison overcrowding in Indonesia. - Bernama-Xinhua
Sinar Daily
19 hours ago
- Politics
- Sinar Daily
Indonesia to build super-maximum security prison on remote island
The government plans to build 13 new prisons across the country, which are expected to be operational by the end of this year. 26 Jun 2025 01:28pm The government plans to build 13 new prisons across the country, which are expected to be operational by the end of this year. - AFP photo (Photo for illustration purpose only) JAKARTA - Indonesian Minister of Immigration and Corrections Agus Andrianto has said that the government is preparing to build a new super-maximum security prison on a remote island as part of broader reforms to the country's correctional system, Xinhua reported. The government plans to build 13 new prisons across the country, which are expected to be operational by the end of this year. - Photo illustrated by Sinar Daily (Photo for illustration purpose only) "The president aspires to build a modern correctional institution with super maximum security, located on a remote island. It is now being prepared," he said on Wednesday during a visit to a prison in Medan, North Sumatra province. As part of wider efforts to improve the correctional system, Andrianto said that the government plans to build 13 new prisons across the country, which are expected to be operational by the end of this year. He noted that the move aims to address the long-standing issue of prison overcrowding in Indonesia. - BERNAMA-XINHUA More Like This
Telegraph
12-03-2025
- Telegraph
Watch: Inmates stage dramatic prison break in Indonesia
A manhunt is underway after more than 50 inmates escaped from an Indonesian prison in a mass breakout. Footage on social media shows men jumping fences, crashing past food vendors and scrambling across the prison's roof, having broken through the front gate at Kutacane Penitentiary in Aceh. Locals in the town, in the archipelago's westernmost province, sought to grab the fugitives before they had a chance to escape, but officials said on Wednesday that 28 inmates remained at large. The jailbreak – which began in the queue for food at dusk on Monday – has been blamed on prison overcrowding, a major issue across Indonesia. Last month, Agus Andrianto, the minister of immigration and corrections, warned that prisons nationwide were currently at 87 per cent over capacity. After Monday's incident, Mr Andrianto told Antara news agency the facility at Kutacane was built to accommodate 100 people, but currently housed 368 inmates. Many of the men were in jail on narcotics-related charges. Mr Andrianto has suggested that more drug addicts should be rehabilitated rather than criminalised, in an effort to reduce the burden on overcrowded jails. But concerns have also been raised about under staffing. Andi, a warden at the facility, told The Jakarta Post: 'The security ratio was unbalanced. If the inmates had incited a riot or attempted an escape, the available personnel wouldn't have been enough to control the situation.' For now, officials said they are combing the region to locate the escapees, and encouraging anyone still at large to hand themselves in to avoid tough new punishments. Doni Sumarsono, the area's police chief, said: 'We are still actively searching for the remaining fugitives and urge them to surrender. It's better to turn yourselves in than face harsher sentences.' This is not the first jailbreak in Indonesia. In November last year, seven inmates escaped a detention centre in central Jakarta by breaking through bathroom grilles leading to a sewer, while four men scaled the walls to escape a facility in Central Kalimantan in 2023.
