Jakarta Globe, Erwin Sihombing & Farouk Arnaz, May 04, 2015
Jakarta. The Indonesian government’s top official in charge of prisons handed in his resignation on Monday following the discovery last month that a drug kingpin on death row was continuing to run his empire from behind bars with the help of officials.
Soldiers guard the waters surrounding Nusakambangan prison island. (Antara Photo/Idhad Zakaria) |
Jakarta. The Indonesian government’s top official in charge of prisons handed in his resignation on Monday following the discovery last month that a drug kingpin on death row was continuing to run his empire from behind bars with the help of officials.
Handoyo
Sudrajat, the Justice Ministry’s director general of corrections, said he had
been unable to “impose enough supervision” and “impose tough reforms” in
prisons across the country.
“I wasn’t
successful in managing the prisons. This [resignation] is what I can do to show
my responsibility,” Handoyo said on Monday.
Handoyo,
previously a state auditor and later the head of graft prevention at the
Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), said he planned to retire.
His
withdrawal comes just weeks after police arrested Freddy Budiman, a drug
convict at the ostensibly high-security prison island of Nusakambangan, off the
south coast of Central Java.
The arrest
stemmed from the capture in March of one of Freddy’s alleged pushers, who told
police that he was still taking orders
from the death-row inmate.
Freddy has
since been transferred to a detention facility at the National Police’s
detectives’ unit, where he is under constant surveillance.
Two guards
at the prison island have also been arrested for helping him run his drug ring
in exchange for promises of cash, cars and houses.
The
National Police’s internal affairs unit has arrested an anti-narcotics officer
on suspicion of taking bribes from Freddy, a police source said on Monday. The
officer was previously involved in Freddy’s initial case.
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