Kerobokan Prison and
Bangli Narcotics Prison – 3 of whom are foreign nationals convicted of narcotics offenses, ere shifted to Indonesia’s island penal colony at
Nusakambangan Island in Central Java in the middle of the night on Wednesday, 16 December 2020.
As reported by
“Devils Island” were almost all convicted of narcotics violations.
Before the prison transfer was conducted, all 18 convicts underwent health protocols for
COVID-19, including a
PCR Swab Test. The nearly 1,000 kilometers, 16-hour transfer was done by bus under an armed police escort.
Bali’s spokesperson for the
Ministry of Law and Human Rights, Surya Dharma, explained that 3 of the 18 convicts transferred to Central Java were taken from the