Jakarta, June 16 -- The Indonesian Ministry of Immigration and Correctional Services announced on June 15 that it has transferred 100 inmates from penitentiaries in North Sumatra to the maximum-security prison island of Nusakambangan in Central Java in a bid to eradicate drug trafficking operations in prisons.

The high-profile inmates were relocated on June 14, according to Rika Aprianti, head of the ministry's Sub-Directorate of Cooperation in Correctional Services, in a press statement.

Aprianti added that Minister of Immigration and Correctional Services Agus Andrianto has consistently upheld a zero-tolerance policy toward both contraband cell phones and drug trafficking inside correctional facilities.

She also noted that around 1,0...