Amuntai, S Kalimantan (ANTARA) - Amuntai Penitentiary in Amuntai, Hulu Sungai Utara (HSU) District, South Kalimantan, cultivates various kinds of vegetables as an effort to provide guidance to correctional inmates (WBP).
“This vegetable cultivation program is to support food self-sufficiency within the Ministry of Immigration and Correction (Kemen Imipas),” said Head of Amuntai Penitentiary Jupri in Amuntai, Hulu Sungai Utara, Monday.
The various vegetables they cultivated are spinach, kale, mustard greens, chilies, and otheer types.
“We even managed to harvest our first kale vegetable. We use the land in the penitentiary area,” he said.
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Jupri said the first harvest of kale produced more than 20 kg. The yield will be used to meet the food needs of the inmates.
He expounded that this program is purely managed by WBP to create independence, so they have skills in the agricultural sector, and later they will be better prepared when they return to society.
Jupri ensures that this program will be implemented continuously because it has many positive impacts for WPB, from food needs, coaching, empowerment, and what is no less important is implementing the direction of the ministry to support national food security.
One of the inmates, AS, acknowledged that he was happy that he could learn agriculture cultivation such as vegetable.
“Not only to spend a free time with positive activities, this knowledge is useful for us to apply after we are free and return to society,” he said.
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