Indonesia
Corrections in Indonesia
A national prison service under the new Ministry of Immigration and Corrections — and one of the most overcrowded systems on this site.
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Prisons in Indonesia are run nationally, through the Directorate-General of Corrections. Since a 2024 machinery-of-government reform (Presidential Regulation 157/2024), that directorate sits under a new Ministry of Immigration and Corrections (Kementerian Imigrasi dan Pemasyarakatan), created out of the former Ministry of Law and Human Rights. Because the system is national, a figure for the whole system describes the whole system.
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Ministry of Immigration and Corrections (Kementerian Imigrasi dan Pemasyarakatan), Indonesia
Kementerian Imigrasi dan Pemasyarakatan (Indonesia) · Government publication · link verified 2026-07-27
The Ministry of Immigration and Corrections, confirmed in two independent passes (with Presidential Regulation No. 157 of 2024, signed 5 November 2024, which created it). Supports that prisons are now run by this ministry — created in a 2024 machinery-of-government split of the former Ministry of Law and Human Rights — through the Directorate-General of Corrections (Direktorat Jenderal Pemasyarakatan). Cited because the World Prison Brief's own ministry label ("Ministry of Justice and Human Rights") is out of date.
World Prison Brief — Indonesia
Institute for Crime & Justice Policy Research (ICPR), Birkbeck, University of London · Academic · link verified 2026-07-27
The World Prison Brief country page for Indonesia (compiled by ICPR from the national prison administration), read directly and re-confirmed by hand on the day of authoring — its figures had been updated since the research pass, so the current values are used. Supports a total prison population of 287,571 including pre-trial detainees at 30 June 2026 (source: the national prison administration); a rate of 99 per 100,000 (UN population estimate); an official capacity of 152,707 at the same date; and an occupancy level of 188.3% at 30 June 2026 — severe overcrowding, with population and capacity carrying the same reference date. The page's "ministry responsible" label ("Ministry of Justice and Human Rights") is out of date; the current ministry is recorded separately.