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According to an October 11 expose by Tempo Magazine, two Police Academy
cadets were injured so severely in hazing incidents that they had to be discharged
from the academy for physical disability; one cadet suffered from partial paralysis
and the other dealt with decreased motor function. The Tempo Magazine article
reported that between January and September, the academy had received at least 13
reports of hazing-related violence. Academy administrators set up military police
patrols around the campus and dormitories to prevent future abuses. No
information regarding accountability in these cases was available at year’s end.
A series of newspaper articles in February implicated Papua police in multiple
sexual assault cases. In one case, four policemen and three civilians allegedly
raped and tortured a fifteen-year-old girl in Biak, Papua, in February. In a second
case, a female detainee at the Jayapura police detention center claimed she was
forced to perform sexual acts with three police officers between November 2010
and January 2011. Following the publication of a report on this second case, the
involved officers received a punishment of 21-days’ administrative detention. The
district police chief of Jayapura City offered his resignation, but the regional police
chief did not accept it.
Prison and Detention Center Conditions
Conditions at the country’s 428 prisons and detention centers were sometimes
harsh and lifethreatening. Overcrowding was widespread. At the end of the year,
data from the Ministry of Law and Human Rights indicated that there were
141,981 detainees in the system, in comparison with a designed capacity of 96,891.
Prisons and detention centers in the Jakarta region were operating at 228 percent of
capacity. For example, according to the government, the Pondok Bambu
Detention Facility in Jakarta, designed for 504 prisoners, held 1,092. The facility
had two types of cells, small and large. A small cell was approximately nine
square yards and designed for one to two prisoners. According to NGOs, three to
five prisoners were assigned to small cells. Authorities routinely assigned 20 to 30
prisoners to large cells designed to hold a maximum of 10 prisoners.
According to government figures, 352 prisoners died between January and August,
compared with 842 throughout the year in 2010.
NGOs noted authorities sometimes did not provide prisoners adequate medical
care. According to informed NGO sources, the medical budget for prisoners was
approximately 1,000 rupiah (approximately $0.11) per prisoner per day.
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2011
United States Department of State • Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor