PROCESS HANDLING CASES OF DRUG ABUSERS FROM CRIMINALIZATION TO DECRIMINALIZATION

Abstract

The rise of narcotics among the community which makes victims of drug abuse
users is increasing and the prevention of a user who is currently still not leveled.
The Directorate General of Corrections of the Ministry of Law and Human Rights
noted that prisons in Indonesia as of July 2, 2023 were inhabited by 187,183
prisoners and prisoners who continued to increase. Whereas the capacity of
prisons in Indonesia is only 93,236 people. This means that prisons in Indonesia
have experienced overload. For the article Handling Narcotics Abuse Cases From
Criminalization to Decriminalization. Which aims to find out the
decriminalization of drug abusers in the construction of positive law in Indonesia
and the decriminalization arrangements in the Integrated Assessment Team (IAT)
of narcotics in Indonesia. The result of his writing is that victims of narcotics
abusers and addicts are placed into medical and social rehabilitation institutions,
and based on articles 54 and 55 it is clearly stated that narcotics addicts must
receive treatment and/or care through medical and social rehabilitation.