Indonesia's anti-drugs agency has proposed building a prison
on an island guarded by crocodiles to hold death row drug convicts. According to our sources, the proposal is the pet project of
anti-drugs chief, Budi Waseso, who plans to visit various parts of the
archipelago in his search for fierce reptiles to guard the jail.
Local news website Tempo quoted Waseso as saying:
“We will place as many crocodiles as we can there. I will search for the most ferocious type of crocodile.”
Waseso said that crocodiles would be better at preventing
drug traffickers from escaping prison as they could not be bribed — unlike
human guards.
“You can’t bribe crocodiles. You can’t convince them to let inmates escape,” Waseso said.
The plan is still in the early stages, and neither the
location or potential opening date of the jail have been decided. Indonesia already has some of the toughest anti-narcotics
laws in the world, including death by firing squad for traffickers, and sparked
international uproar in April when it put to death seven foreign drug convicts.
However, President Joko Widodo has insisted that drug
dealers must face death as the country is fighting a “national emergency” due
to rising narcotics use.
He said only traffickers would be kept in the jail, to stop
them from mixing with other prisoners and potentially recruiting them to drug
gangs. He added that the agency is currently in discussions with the justice
ministry about the plan.
Source
AFP
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