How many people are imprisoned in Indonesia?

Indonesia's prison population is 276,136 people. This figure aggregates all forms of detention counted by the source: sentenced prisoners, pre-trial detainees, and administrative detentions.

What is the incarceration rate in Indonesia?

Indonesia's incarceration rate is approximately 96 people per 100,000 population.

How many prisons are there in Indonesia?

World Prisons indexes 774 individual facilities in Indonesia. Each entry links to a detail page with contact information, capacity, oversight reports, and known conditions.

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Indonesia

Q: Does Indonesia have the death penalty?

Indonesia's death-penalty status is: retentionist. Seeded from Amnesty International 2024 categorisation + Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide.

High confidence

Verified 20 May 2026 · Data dated 31 Dec 2025

Aging · 5mo ago

Severe overcrowding driven by narcotics convictions; presidential amnesties periodic but limited.

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Data is aggregated from public sources and may be incomplete or out of date. Always verify with primary sources before acting on any figure. See data sources.

Prison population

276,136

Year: 2025

Rate per 100,000

Per 100,000 residents

Occupancy

184.5%

Severely overcrowded

Pre-trial / remand

21.7%

Share not yet sentenced

Female prisoners

Foreign nationals

0.4%

Figures from official sources · verified 20 May 2026 · methodology

Conditions risk — across 774 facilities

Average of our computed Conditions Risk Score across the country's facilities. Methodology · Browse highest-risk

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national average

774 unknown

retentionist on capital punishment. Last known execution: 2024.Methods: firing squadICCPR-OP2 (death-penalty abolition protocol): not a signatory

Seeded from Amnesty International 2024 categorisation + Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide.

Source: Amnesty International + Cornell Death Penalty Worldwide.

4 documented human-rights cases →

How Indonesia compares

vs Asia (16) & global averages

Rate per 100,000this: 96 · region: 168 · global: 214

Occupancy ratethis: 185% · region: 145% · global: 125%

Pre-trial sharethis: 22% · region: 34% · global: 32%

The vertical ticks mark the global (grey) and regional (amber) means. Bars are clipped at the high end for readability.

Prison population over time

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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See all 774 prisons in Indonesia →

Data completeness

100%

Score based on how many fields are populated. We surface this so you know where the gaps are.

National population: 288,360,0002025
Source-verified: 20 May 2026
Source links: 1 cited

Sources

Direct citations for the figures on this page.

Primary reference
World Prison Brief (ICPS, Birkbeck) — Institute for Crime & Justice Policy Research
See /data-sources for our methodology.

ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: IDN

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APA

World Prisons. (2026). Indonesia — prison statistics. Retrieved October 14, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/countries/indonesia

Chicago

"Indonesia — prison statistics." World Prisons. Accessed October 14, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/countries/indonesia.

BibTeX

@misc{worldprisons-indonesia,
  author = {{World Prisons}},
  title = {Indonesia — prison statistics},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://worldprisons.com/countries/indonesia},
  urldate = {2026-10-14}
}