Indonesian Prison Inmates Buy Special Privileges
08/13/2013
Prisoners walk inside Kerobokan prison after a trial at Denpasar court on Indonesia's island of Bali.
Hello and welcome to As It Is from VOA Learning English. I’m Steve Ember.
Today we tell about how some prisoners in Indonesian jails use their money to get special privileges and services.
We hear concerns that women in Afghanistan may lose some of the human rights they have gained when international troops withdraw.
Finally, we note the anniversary of the start of construction on this date in 1961 of what was to become the Berlin Wall.
Indonesian Prison Inmates Buy Special Privileges
Media reports say prisoners in Indonesia can buy house cleaning services, illegal drugs and even sex for the right price. Indonesia is again debating favoritism for wealthy Indonesian prisoners
This time, the issue came to the country’s attention when a young woman said she and her boyfriend had sex and used illegal drugs in a private room in prison. The boyfriend of 22-year-old model Vanny Rossyane was sentenced to death this July. Freddy Budiman had been found guilty of trying to import illegal drugs from China.
Budiman was already in Jakarta’s Cipinang prison on separate drug charges. He was said to operate his illegal drug business from prison using cell phones.
Leopold Sudaryono is the law coordinator at the Asia Foundation in Jakarta. He says that prisoners pay for everything in jail, from luxuries to necessary things such as food, soap and a bed.
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