TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The government`s idea to give chemical castration to pedophiles is not only vicious, but also violates human rights.
In addition, the punishment will not be effective because the androgen injection is only temporary, that is by paralyzing their sexual drive considered to be the cause of those pedophiles to vent their sexual desire to children.
Pedophilia is an extraordinary crime and the number of the victims in Indonesia is quite big.
The National Commission for Children Protection reported that from around 600 reports of violence against children, 52 percent is sexual crime.
This is truly alarming.
However, preventing pedophilia cases by implementing such a penalty, which is beyond the limits, is tantamount to legalizing viciousness and crimes in the name of truth.
Also, since the chemical castration is permanent, pedophiles can grow their sexual desires again once the injection of chemical castration is stopped.
Consequently, not only does the state have to monitor them, but also the state budget must be spent continuously to provide chemical substances and inject to those pedophiles.
In comparison with imprisoning them for a lifetime, giving them chemical castration will certainly add the burden to the state budget.
Therefore, the best way to punish pedophiles and rapists is to isolate them and alienate from the society. Sending them to prisons for a long time is the fair punishment for their crimes.
A pedophile must be punished by alienating them from others because it is their social interaction that they misuse by venting sexual drive wildly.
Come what may, pedophilia is a mental disorder and so it is their mental that must be restricted.
The biggest sexual drive rests on the human’s thoughts and if their brains still have sexual drive, the sexual drive will grow.
What would happen if their sexual desire were still there while they could not vent it because they are castrated? The libido will grow in another form of crime that is usually fiercer.
Therefore, instead of enacting a government regulation in lieu of law on castration, it would be better if the government revises punishment for pedophiles.
If drug lords can be given a death sentence by amending the article, punishment for pedophiles can be revised with a maximum sentence.
Because pedophilia is categorized as an extraordinary crime, their punishment must also be commensurate, that is by alienating them from the society, for example, by giving them lifetime isolation.
Drug lords are also not deterred although many have been given a death sentence because the penalty would in fact end their sufferings. They are not afraid to be arrested for circulating drugs because their sufferings inside the cells would end once the firing squad shot them.
Certainly, we do not want pedophiles to grow in our country because they would consider that their punishment is only temporary.
Removing them from social interaction by giving them a life sentence would give a deterrent effect to them because it is beyond imagination if they could not vent their sexual desires.
Indonesia does not have to follow other countries by implementing this because the effectiveness is not guaranteed.
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