Several countries have already implemented the chip implant scheme, he said here on Thursday.
"So, we could monitor wherever they go. If they are about to commit actions that could endanger children, officers will immediately move," he stated.
In a limited cabinet meeting on Wednesday (May 11), President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) revealed a plan to issue a government regulation in lieu of law (Perppu) on sexual violence against children.
The Perppu will impose maximum sentences of 20 years in prison plus additional stringent punishments of chemical castration and chip implants, as well exposing the identities of the perpetrators.
"The Perppu will be issued soon. It is the commitment of the president, who believes that sexual violence is an extraordinary crime, and the punishment should act as a deterrent," Coordinating Human Development and Culture Minister Puan Maharani noted in Jakarta on Wednesday.
The draft of the Perppu will be tabled in the Parliament for deliberation soon.
The Perppu will be issued instead of a new law, because a law will take longer to be passed. (*)
Editor: Heru Purwanto
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