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July 8, 2008 edition

CLOSE to 50 percent of prison inmates in Indonesia are serving sentences for their involvement in narcotics and hazardous drugs cases. In Jakarta and Tangerang the numbers probably reach as high as 75 percent. They are dealers, producers and, sadly, even users who may have been caught because they were in possession of one or two joints of marijuana.
The small number of prison wardens, the minimum monitoring equipment and the promise of high profits from the drugs trade, make it easy for this contraband to enter prison walls. In this edition, Tempo presents articles which rely considerably on reports from inside prisons.

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