The Right to Health Assessment on Indonesian Policy on Releasing Incarcerated People
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.211112.072How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- People in Incarceration; The Right to Health; Human Rights; Prison; Indonesia
- Abstract
The Indonesian government issues the regulation with releasing people in incarceration to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic. Indonesian government released 40.000 peoples in incarcerated in 2020. However, the overcrowded prisons in Indonesia that reach more than 80% need a more progressive response and new perspective. The human rights approach obliges Indonesia to protect, promote and fulfill human rights as an international norm for everyone in its jurisdiction. The international human rights laws provide the guideline to solve the issues on public health in the prisons and detention centers and lining the basic standard to evaluate and assess the policy and program. This research analyzes on the Indonesian government fulfills and protects human rights, especially the right to health towards people in incarceration, and to reduce the risk of the failure of human rights obligation in the prisons. This research finds flawed policy regarding the incarcerated peoples’ release due to the lacking of alternative policy in order to reduce the overcrowding population. The research also finds the lack of prioritizing the most at risk and vulnerable groups in the prisons that leads to the failures to fulfill the policy’s aim on releasing people in incarceration. This research uses normative methods with library research on national and international human rights instruments.
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- © 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Fransiska Asmin PY - 2021 DA - 2021/11/23 TI - The Right to Health Assessment on Indonesian Policy on Releasing Incarcerated People BT - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Law and Human Rights 2021 (ICLHR 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 553 EP - 559 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211112.072 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.211112.072 ID - Asmin2021 ER -