What We Do
Research
Center for Detention Studies (CDS) has conducted lot of researches in order to improve the correctional system in Indonesia.
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Monitoring
We do monitoring to ensure that the rights and obligations of detainees and prisoners are properly and cleanly fulfilled from corruption, collusion, and nepotism (KKN).
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Researches
Advocacies
Monitoring
Recent News
In Indonesia’s Dysfunctional Prisons, Escapes Aren’t the Half of It
JAKARTA, Indonesia — The recent escape of four foreign inmates who tunneled their way out of Kerobokan Prison, a high-security facility on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, could have been a scene from a Hollywood movie. But there is plenty of other drama...
Deadly Uprising by ISIS Followers Shake Indonesia’s Prison System
DEPOK, Indonesia — A day after Islamic State followers seized part of a high-security terrorist detention center and killed five guards, the country was left on Thursday with no shortage of questions. The logical first one: How could this have happened?...
Indonesia’s Prison Overcrowding Crisis: Criminal Code Delay A Chance to Fix it?
After a wave of protests from students, civil society activists and prominent community figures, the national legislature (DPR) and the government finally agreed to postpone passing a controversial new criminal code (KUHP) to replace the current code, inherited from...