Nusakambangan Island

If America has Alcatraz prison, so Indonesia has Nusakambangan prison. It is almost the same like Alcatraz, Nusakambangan is a super class prison. It is prison for terrorist, super S criminal, super S corruptor, or prisoner who sentenced to death they kill in Nusakambangan. In spite of that,

it has beautiful beach. The island is located in the Indian Ocean, separated by a narrow strait off the southern coast of Java; the closest port is Cilacap in Central Java province. Dubbed by one international journalist the "Alcatraz of Indonesia", the island is notorious for its maximum security prisons, home to convicted murderers, terrorists, drug traffickers, and those convicted in high profile corruption cases. It is sometimes known as Execution Island because the island is the main location for carrying out capital punishment around Java.

The island was made into a prison island during the Dutch period. The colonial government built a high security prison on the isolated island to exile criminals and political dissidents. The prison on Nusakambangan was opened in the mid-1920s by Indonesia's Dutch colonial rulers and was once considered the harshest penal institution in South East Asia. The island was declared off-limits in 1905 by the Dutch.

Its usage as a prison island continued after independence. During the rule of former President Suharto, hundreds of political dissidents were imprisoned on the island. Most were political prisoners, members of the banned Communist Party of Indonesia or sympathizers. These political prisoners were never brought to trial, and many of them died from hunger or illness.

There are nine prisons built in the island, four of which are still used:

    Permisan prison, built in 1908,
    Batu prison, built in 1925,
    Besi prison, built in 1929,
    Kembangkuning prison, built in 1950.

There are also five inactive prisons:

    Nirbaya prison, built in 1912,
    Karanganyar prison, built in 1912,
    Karangtengah prison, built in 1928,
    Gliger prison, built in 1929,
    Limusbuntu prison, built in 1935.

All of these were built by the Dutch, except Kembangkuning prison, which was built after independence. Of these, Batu (literally "stone") prison is considered the most famous.

Famous people imprisoned on the island include:

•  Pramoedya Ananta Toer, poet and novelist, jailed on the island July - August 1969 as political prisoner.
• Bob Hasan, former Minister of Forestry, convicted of corruption charges,
• Imam Samudra, Amrozi, and Ali Gufron, three men convicted of organising the 2002 Bali bombing. They were executed there by firing squad on November 9, 2008.
• Tommy Suharto, son of former president Suharto, convicted of masterminding the murder of the judge who sentenced him for corruption.
• Fabianus Tibo, Dominggus da Silva and Marianus Riwu, three men convicted as provocateurs and mastermind of a deadly riot in Central Sulawesi; they have been executed there.
• Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, the ringleaders of the so-called Bali Nine group were arrested at Denpasar airport in April 2005 for drug trafficking and sentenced in 2006 to execution by firing squad. They were executed by firing squad on April 29, 2015.
• Brazilian Rodrigo Gularte, mentally ill drug smuggler. He was executed by firing squad on April 29, 2015.
• Filipina Mary Jane Veloso, arrested and sentenced to death for allegedly smuggling 2.6 kg of heroin into Indonesia.

Nusakambangan has also held hundreds of members of Gerakan Aceh Merdeka, but they were later released as part of a peace deal.

In June 2007, 244 inmates convicted in various drugs and narcotics offences were transported to the new Super Maximum Security Prison (SMS) in Nusakambangan. These inmates came from various prisons in the country. The moving is intended to isolate them and cut drug circulation in Indonesia. (Source)

 

Karang Bolong Beach, Nusa Kambangan