By Jewel Topsfield
The Sydney Morning Herald
JAKARTA — Indonesia’s anti-drugs chief was “only joking” when he talks about ferocious crocs becoming the nation’s latest prison guards, according to one of Indonesian President Joko Widodo’s most trusted ministers.
“I think he’s only joking,” the co-ordinating minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs, Luhut Panjaitan, said in an interview with Fairfax Media.
But he confirmed part of the story: the Indonesian government has decided to build separate jails for drug offenders and terrorists to isolate them from the rest of the prison community.
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