Drug Users in Indonesia Not Be jail

Ministry of Justice and Human Rights reviewing the policy not to imprison drug users. These users should get the relief effort to recover from addiction.

"There is a discourse of ministers and deputy ministers, for users this could be coordinated with relevant agencies to be rehabilitated," said Director General of Corrections, told reporters at the House Sihabuddin Kemenkumham AHU, Jakarta, Wednesday (26/10/2011). But according Sihabuddin, have not found common ground between the various relevant agencies, to enforce this policy.

Nevertheless, he continued, in court the judge could decide not convicted of a wearer to prison, but through the process of rehabilitation. "In the law there is one authority that judges decide that the user's renovation," he said. "For that we still have to coordinate with the judiciary and outside institutions," he added.