JAKARTA: Indonesia is set to release about 30,000 prisoners early as the South-East Asian nation seeks to avoid a possible surge in Covid-19 (coronavirus) cases and infections in its overcrowded prisons.
A document issued by the law and human rights ministry reviewed by Reuters stipulated that adult prisoners would be eligible for parole if they had served two-thirds of their sentences, while children would be eligible if they served half of their jail term.
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