Newly Established Provisions on the Indonesian Correctional System

OVERVIEW

Although convicts rights to liberty are fortified as a consequence of their criminal actions, certain of their rights are nonetheless guaranteed under Law No. 12 of 1995 on Corrections (“Corrections Law”). The Corrections Law provides that both adult and youth offenders have rights to receive remissions, assimilation back into society, family visitations, and the opportunity to be eligible for and receive a conditional discharge, parole, or furlough.[1]

In the past decade, prisoners’ rights that are guaranteed under the Corrections Law’s implementing regulation, Government Regulation No. 32 of 1999 on Requirements and Procedures to Implement the Rights of Prisoners (“Prisoners’ Rights Regulation”), underwent two major changes. The first amendment was in 2006 by Government Regulation No.28 of 2006, and the second under Government Regulation No. 99 of 2012.