Policy for Drug Users in Indonesia: A Critical Policy Analysis of Jail Punishment and an Alternate Rehabilitation Policy

摘要

The prevalence of drug users in Indonesiaduring 2004 was 1.5% from a totalpopulation (3.2 million people). About 69%of them were abusers and 31% wereaddicted. In addition, 6% of the totalpopulation have experienced drugs.1 Illicitdrugs are harming people in many ways,causing a wide range of health problems:addiction, injuries, cardiovascular diseases,HIV/AIDS, hepatitis and cancers. One in fivedrug users meet the WHO criteria fordependence.2.