JAKARTA: The Indonesian Law Ministry has significantly reduced the number of inmates eligible to be granted amnesty by the government to around 1,000 following a comprehensive verification of prisoners’ backgrounds.
During a meeting with House of Representatives Commission XIII overseeing human rights on Wednesday (May 21), the ministry’s general legal administration director general Widodo said the list initially included 44,000 names of inmates provided by the Immigration and Corrections Ministry’s correctional facilities directorate general.
