According to a study by the Institute for Criminal Justice Reform (ICJR), as of March 2017, there were 227,924 prisoners in Indonesia. This number is the highest in Southeast Asia, and the fourth highest in the world. Of these prisoners, around 60% are pre-trial detainees or remand prisoners, meaning they have not yet been convicted of a crime.
The high number of prisoners in Indonesia is due to a number of factors. Firstly, the criminal justice system is overburdened, with …