| dc.description.abstract | The convict right is a part of human rights clung as human dignity. The right
should be consistently protected by either state or law enforcers particularly by
correctional institution. The Indonesia Law No.12/1995 regarding rehabilitees,
particularly chapter 14, has recognized comprehend snively the convict rights in
Correctional Institution,. The types of right include right of holding religion, right of
enjoying the health service and realistic food, the right of receiving physical and
psychological treatment, right of receiving education and teaching, and so on. The
rights of convict are part of human right clung on convict's dignity as members of
people that should be respected appropriately.
The objectives of research are to know how is the regulation about convict' s
right in Correctional System in Indonesia, Implementation of convict's rights
according to the Indonesia Law No.12/1995 regarding rehabilitation in Correctional
Institution class I Medan, and also to know the obstacles and attempts taken by
Correctional Class I Medan in Implementing the rights of convict in Correctional
Institution Class I Medan. The location of the research is Correctional Institution
Glass I Medan, because Correctional Institution Glass I Medan is a · biggest
Correctional Institution in Sumatera island with overcapacity of inhabitation. The
data is collected by document study, distribution, of questionnaires, observation and in
interview. The respondents included in this research are convicts, family of the
convicts, Correctional Institutional officials, paramedics, chief of Correctional
Institution, chief division of advisory, chief division of Taskforce, chief division
Program dan Reporting Unit, and chief division of socialization. Thus, the method of
research used is by combining normative juridical research and sociological juridic
( empirical), and they are analytical descriptive.
From the result of research it can be concluded that the regulation of
convict's right in Correctional System of Indonesia is made international requirement
contained in Universal Declaration of Human Right, Standard Minimum Rule for the
Treatment of Prisoners, Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or
Degrading Treatment of Punishment, DUHAM, and Covenant of Civil and Politic
Right, and what is included in national requirement is regulated in Criminal Law Text
book, Regalement of Jail, and Indonesian Law No.12/1995 regarding the Correction.
In addition, the correctional Institution Class I Medan has taken as maximum as
possible attempts to implement the convict's right according to Indonesia the law
No.12/1995 regarding rehabilitation, although some right of convict can't be treated
optimally, this is largely due to some obstacles, including the lack of human power of
professionals in Correctional Institution~ the minimum budget available in the
Correctional Institution, over-inhabitation, the lack of motivation ang interest of
convict, and failure of collaborating with external parties. To overcome those
obstacles, the Correctional Institution Class I Medan has taken dome measures to renovate/ build Correctional Institution Class I Medan, to distribute proportional
inhabitants§ optimize the rights of convicts; to propose the PRA-DIPA; and to
provide the officials with chance to take the study either in Stratum I or Stratum 2
levels, and to build the collaboration with communities and related instances
implementation of advisory function to convicts. | en_US |
