Cipinang Penitentiary Institution
top-security prison in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Cipinang Penitentiary Institution (Indonesian: Lembaga Pemasyarakatan Cipinang) is a top-security prison in Jakarta, Indonesia. It is exactly located in Cipinang Muara, Jatinegara, East Jakarta.
History
The prison was built by the Dutch colonial administration, during the Indonesian National Revival. It held Indonesian nationalist leaders such as Mohammed Hatta. Following Indonesian independence, the prison continued to be used by authorities. Communists and leftists arrested in the 1951 mass arrests in Indonesia were detained there, as was the novelist Pramoedya A. Toer in 1961 for criticizing the Sukarno administration's anti-Chinese policies.
Human rights groups such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch alleged that the Suharto administration used Cipinang and other prisons to silence opponents from the Sukarno administration and Irian Jaya.
In their annual report for 2005, AI also spoke of routine torture and ill-treatment. The organization said of Cipinang and other prisons:
According to a survey conducted by a local non-governmental organization, over 81 percent of prisoners arrested between January 2003 and April 2005 in Salemba detention centre, Cipinang prison, and Pondok Bambu prison, all in Jakarta, were tortured or ill-treated. About 64 percent were tortured or ill-treated during interrogation, 43 percent during arrest, and 25 percent during detention.
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