Abstract:

This legal research aims towards analyzing and presenting prognosis in order to answer the problems on prison overcrowding in indonesia which is carried out through the reformulation of Law Number 35 of 2009 on Narcotics. As a normarice legal research, this research uses several approaches, those include statutory approach, conceptual approach, and comparative approach. This research concluded that excessive imprisonment towards narcotics abuser and prison overcrowding have a causal relationship. Therefore, alternative punishment that involved no jail time is deemed necessary. Furthermore, for this alternative punishment to be effective, it is important to form a special task force aimed towards supervising the enforcement of the punishment so that it is adequetly executed.

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