JAKARTA, Indonesia – Supreme Court justice Suriatmaja said Wednesday (October 30th) the country needs specialized rehabilitation facilities in prisons for drug addicts, local media reported.

He said police and prosecutors need to make the distinction between addicts and dealers to help judges with sentencing as Indonesia's overcrowded prison system is inundated with drug users.

"There needs to be a drug correctional facility. It should have the same approach as the (current) medical rehabilitation but placed within penitentiary facilities," he said during a discussion on drugs and rehabilitation in Jakarta, according to The Jakarta Globe.

Marzuki, deputy for health and medical assistance at the justice and rights ministry's Directorate General for Corrections, said there are 154,000 inmates in a prison system intended to hold 102,000. Of that, 58,476 are drug convicts. He added that there are 17 penitentiary facilities that specialise in drug cases but eight of them are already over capacity.

National Narcotics Agency chief Anang Iskandar said there are now 4 million drug users in Indonesia. He said authorities need to stop focusing on users and pursue the dealers and kingpins, adding that law enforcement officials have misconceptions about the definition of dealers.