Recommendations
(A/HRC/7/3/Add.7, para. 7292)
Situation during visit
Steps taken in previous years
(A/HRC/13/39/Add.6 and
A/HRC/16/52/Add.2)
province.
Information received in the reporting
period
the Indonesian National Police
successfully caught the offenders and
seized the weapons for committing the
violence. They have been duly processed
before the law and most of them have
been sentenced to 5 to 15 years of
imprisonment. At present, the situation in
Poso is more conducive and is back to
normalcy.
In carrying out their duty, police officers
refrain from committing discriminatory
acts based on particular religion or ethnic
group.
Conditions of detention
Conditions of detention varied
considerably throughout the
country, facilities in urban areas
were overcrowded, while prisons
outside of Java offered enough
space;
Government: The Ministry of Justice
and Human Rights made several
improvements in detention centres and
prison facilities:
- the detention centre and prison facilities
in Cipinang Prison have been expanded
into prisons, temporary detention centres
and prisons for detainees charged with
narcotic substances,
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Overcrowded facilities, e.g.
Chipinang prison, were
confronted with sanitary and
health difficulties, corruption, and
- From 2007 to 2009, Cipinang Prison
inter-prisoner violence;
has conducted reintegration programs for
Numerous complaints about the
detainees on conditional release, or cuti
quality of food were voiced;
bersyarat (temporary conditional release).
Between 2007 and September 2009,
Punishment cells as well as new
16.400 prisoners were released.
arrival areas were not in line with
international standards;
- A MoU was signed with the Ministry of
Health on the improvement of sanitation
Persons with mental disabilities
and the development of internal
were often held in punishment
infirmary units equipped with standard
cells;
treatment facilities in all prisons, which
Convicted and pre-trial detainees are expected to be implemented in 2010.
were not separated in many
- Minors/Juvenile prisoners have been
The Ministry of Justice and Human
Rights has made several improvements to
the detention centre and prison facilities,
such as:
a. improving the menu by changing
the 7-day-variation to 10-dayvariation of the menu and
providing the calories needed;
b. improving the health service for
detainees by increasing the
budget. The latter, however, is
not sufficient to meet the ideal
standard health treatment. In
addition, the Indonesian
National Police has intensified
the Center for Coordinated
Service in the Police Hospitals
as well as Public Hospitals in
the areas prone to trafficking in
persons.
c. Applying gender-friendly system,
such as separating female
A/HRC/19/61/Add.3
87. The Government of
Indonesia should continue
efforts to improve detention
conditions, in particular with a
view to providing health care,
treat rather than punish
persons with mental
disabilities, and improve the
quantity and quality of food.
The Government, in all
detention contexts, should
ensure the separation of
minors from adults and of pretrial prisoners from convicts
and train and deploy female
personnel to women‘s sections
of prisons and custody
facilities.
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