vi. Therapeutic community programme which is conducted in the prison facilities represents a highly effective and structured environment within defined boundaries, both moral and ethical. It is accomplished by reshaping an individual’s behaviour and attitudes. Inmate community working together to help themselves and each other restoring self-confidence and to prepare them for reintegration into their family as productive members of community. 2.3. Mr. Sigit Budianto, Deputy Director of the Technology and Information and Foreign Cooperation on behalf of the Directorate General of Correction, Ministry of Law and Human Rights, Indonesia shared the efforts in the promotion and protection of human rights in correctional facilities in Indonesia. i.Introduction According to the Indonesian Act No. 12 Year 1995 on Corrections – Correction is an act to reform offenders based on a systematic and institutionalised treatment as the last sequence of events in the criminal justice system. Correctional facilities function to provide services, treatment, guidance, management, healthcare, and security. The purpose of corrections is to assist offenders to become law-abiding citizens who regret their mistakes, strive to improve themselves and refrain from reoffending. ii.Statistics and Data In 2021, the Directorate General of Correction, Indonesia is managing 680 correctional facilities which consist of detention centre, juvenile prison, parole office, house of confiscation and hospital.30 The correctional facilities nationwide host about 270,793 inmates while the capacity of a prison is only 130 to 107 persons.31 iii.Challenges Most prisons in Southeast Asian countries share a common issue which is overcrowding. The occupancy rate of a prison is more than 100 persons due to the fact that the average growth prison population is higher than the average capacity of prison. iv.Strategies Strategy by the Directorate General of Corrections, Indonesia stresses the importance of tackling overcrowding through the increase of prison capacity by building new facilities and renovation, transfer of inmates from crowded to less crowded prisons, optimisation of parole programs, working with other law enforcement agencies to enforce alternative sentences rather than imprisonment and initiatives towards restorative justice. 30 31 Source: SDP Pusat, 25 November 2021 Ibid. 14