Jakarta police accused of abusing prisoners

Indonesian police ill-treat prisoners accused of separatism in Papua and Maluku, says a human rights group.

The group said the Indonesian government has failed to protect citizens from human rights abuses as they face continued torture inside tiny and dirty cells without recourse to medical services or family visits.

It maintains that one prisoner died in a Maluku penitentiary this year after prison authority failed to provide medical care.

“In 2010 Indonesian police arrested some people allegedly in affiliation with South Maluku Republic (RMS) and Free Papua Movement (OPM),” Harris Azhar of the Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence (KontraS) said in a press conference yesterday.

According to the KontraS report for 2010, there are 34 prisoners accused of joining the OPM and 83 prisoners for RMS, that were jailed in eight prisons in Java Island and Ambon, the capital of Maluku province.

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