Shocking footage has emerged showing more than 50 inmates staging a mass prison break from a notorious Indonesian jail.

The video, filmed by bystanders outside the Kutacane Penitentiary in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh Province earlier this month, shows prisoners – some barefoot and clothed only in shorts ...

A recent prison break has exposed the flaws in Indonesia’s overstretched correctional system. Experts say a complete overhaul ...

However critics said a more enduring solution did not require flashy proposals, just stronger anti-graft laws to ensure ...

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto’s pledge to construct a remote island prison for corrupt officials has been met with scepticism from experts, who argued that deeper structural reforms of ...

The court found Chief Seaman Bambang Apri Atmojo and First Sgt. Akbar Adli guilty of committing premeditated murder and ...

An Indonesian TikToker has been sentenced to almost three years in prison after reportedly 'talking' to a picture of Jesus on ...

Indonesia's Immigration and Penitentiary Affairs Ministry awarded special remissions and sentence reductions to over 150 thousand inmates nationwide this ...

Banished from the mainland, prisoners on Indonesia's notorious Nusakambangan Island await news of their fate. The prison complex is home to a number of prisons of varying levels of security.

Lindsay Sandiford, 67, has been incarcerated in a cramped cell inside Bali's hellish Kerobokan prison since 2013 where she is ...

Thai human rights activists on Wednesday night said at a panel discussion at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand that ...