Spiritual Well-Being among Juveniles: A Case Study in Pontianak Correctional Facility, Indonesia

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10.2991/assehr.k.220304.025How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Spiritual Well-Being; Juvenile Rape Perpetrator; Juvenile Murderer Perpetrators; Correctional Facility

Abstract

As concerning criminal acts, children should undergo the law, with a logical consequence in the form of imprisonment. However, the environment in correctional facilities is not a community that supports child development. The rehabilitation program further provided among juveniles aims to restore social roles, complete their functions well, accomplish their responsibilities, and become recognized human beings. The rehabilitation programs administered spiritual supervision, psychological health promotion, soft skill course, and education. However, during the adjustment in prison and success in the rehabilitation program, juveniles need to have flourishing spiritual well-being. Therefore, this study explores the juveniles’ spiritual well-being undergoing a correctional facility program. The research method is qualitative with a case study approach. The data collection method was carried out through in-depth interviews, observation, and analyzing register books that record the details of the cases. The participants are the juveniles in Pontianak Correctional Facilities ages 17-18, amidst two criminal cases: murderer and rape. This study results demonstrate the dynamic process of spiritual well-being among juveniles in correctional facilities in the description within the four domains: a personal domain that has similarity between three respondents, communal that display various classifications, environmental, and transcendental that describe the distinction between each other further each religion. Finally, this study contributes to numerous elements such as Directorate General of Corrections, correctional facilities, warden, family, and juveniles.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Wahyu Saefudin
AU  - Sriwiyanti Sriwiyanti
AU  - Siti Hajar
AU  - Meta Aisyah
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/03/28
TI  - Spiritual Well-Being among Juveniles: A Case Study in Pontianak Correctional Facility, Indonesia
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd World Conference on Gender Studies (WCGS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 176
EP  - 184
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220304.025
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220304.025
ID  - Saefudin2022
ER  -