INDONESIAN PRISON INMATE GET SPESIAL PRIVILAGE

Vocabularies :

1.      Prison                          :building in which criminals are kept as a punishment.

2.      Privilege                      :special right or advantage that a particular person or group has.

3.      Resource                     :thing that can be used for help when needed.

4.      Overcrowding             :with too many people in a place.

WHY INDONESIAN PRISON INMATES GET SPECIAL PRIVILAGES?

Media report say prisoner in Indonesia can buy house cleaning service, illegal drugs and even sex for the right price. Indonesian is again debating favoritism for wealthy Indonesian prisoner this time, the issue came to the country’s attention when a young women said she and her boyfriend had sex and used illegal in a private room in prison. The boyfriend of 22-years-old model Vanny Rossyane was sentence to death this July. Freddy Budiman had been found guilty off trying to import illegal drugs from China. Budiman was already in Jakarta’s Cipinang prison using cell phone.

Leopold Sudaryono is the law coordinator at the Asia Foundation in Jakarta. He says that prisoners pay for everything in jail, from luxuries to necessary things such as food, soap and a bed. “Since the resources are scare here, they (inmates) need to pay for the resources like a food, even for the mattresses  ...”, he says prisoners who can’t pay for these things and who don’t have family support need to work inside prison serving other prisoners. Indonesian prisoners suffer from corruption; overcrowding, poor operations have cell phones and other banned goods.

Mister Sudaryono says this illegal system can actually help bring calm to extremely crowded jails. Today there are around 160.000 prisoners across the country. Indonesian jails struggle to provide housing and food. Prison official are not able to offer rehabilitation service like education or counseling.

Mr. Sudaryono says there is only one guard for every 900 prisoners in the most crowded prisons. “Overcrowding is not only unique to Indonesian or other developing countries. Actually countries like U.S and Australia also have problems with overcrowding, but the problem in Indonesia, the rate is just extraordinary. I mean we can have rate like 600-700 percent overcrowding in a number of prisons.” This month more than 200 prisoners escape after rioting in an overcrowded prison in Sumatra.