How Seven Prisoners Escaped from Salemba Detention Facility

The Salemba Detention Center guards are suspected of negligence in the case of seven inmates escaping. It is alleged that someone supplied tools to the escapees.

Riky Ferdianto

December 2, 2024

THE end of the drainage tunnel at Salemba Detention Center, Central Jakarta, has had three layers of new iron bars since mid-November. The 13 and 16-millimeter thick iron bars were installed crisscrossing to close off the waterway. The iron bars were installed after seven prisoners escaped and broke through two old bars in the hole. “It is suspected that they used certain tools,” said Dedy Edward Eka Saputra, Chief of the Public

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