| Sukun Penitentiary for Women, Malang, East Java. |
A category one prison, high security for 160 female prisoners serving long term sentences and female prisoners on death row. The prison is controlled by the military and is very regimented.
Prisoners are issued two sets of blue prison uniforms per year and these must be worn at all times, except when attending religious services.
There is no Aussie Consulate in Malang, but regular consulate visits from the Consular staff in Jakarta are permissible within the law (usually 1 visit per month). Sukun allows twice weekly 30 minute visitation from family.
Prisoners are woken at 5am for an hour of prayer, then an hour of exercise. They are locked back in the cells at 6pm and are to be asleep by 9pm. They can read newspapers, books, magazines, watch TV and do craft (embroidery), sewing, lace-making and hairdressing.
There is a hospital within easy access which prisoners are taken for treatment.
Rehabilitation provisions included literacy classes, moral and religious training, and workshops to teach crafts and skills. Some prisons operated small industries or agricultural enterprises that sold their products on the local market. Proceeds were used to pay a small wage to the working inmates, to buy recreational equipment, and to maintain buildings and grounds. In some prisons, inmates worked in fields outside the prison confines. A women’s garden 15 x 20 has over 59 medicinal plants.
Not only is the prison strictly for women which reduces the risk of serious offences against women by male prisoners, it is considered to be of a better standard than Kerobokan in Bali. It is said to provide cleaner conditions and better rehabilitative provisions for women. |
    
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