Militants still flourishing in Indonesian jails

JAKARTA: Indonesia’s overcrowded prisons are ill-equipped to deal with militant inmates, hampering efforts to prevent the spread of violent radicalism in institutions that have become known as extremist breeding grounds, a study has found.

The study by University of Indonesia psychologists, which adds to years of warnings by experts, found that prison staff lacked the ability to identify “high-risk” prisoners who could recruit other inmates as they were given limited information and specialist training.