The rehabilitative aspects of the Indonesian correctional system are admission and orientation, education and treatment, assimilation, and integration and parole. In the admission and orientation process, relevant information on the offender is collected as the basis for a decision about the type of treatment and programing the offender will receive. Subsequent treatment programs involve work, recreation, education, and counseling. Work programs are compulsory, while the others are optional. The assimilation process permits an offender with a good conduct record who has served at least one-half of his sentence to be transferred from medium security to an open institution, where involvement in community activities and work is encouraged. To be eligible for parole, an offender must have served at least two-thirds of his sentence (a minimum of 9 months) and must have demonstrated good behavior. Before parole is granted, the parole board must also receive assurances that the offender will receive care and support from his family and his community. There must be a written statement from village leaders that the community is willing to receive the offender. In 1978, there were 230 inmates paroled from about 38,000 inmates, including unconvicted inmates. This low percentage of paroles was largely due to the unwillingness of families and communities to adopt a positive view of offenders' paroles. There is a need for the correctional system to publicize the effectiveness of rehabilitative efforts and to elicit the interest of families and communities in the resocialization of the offender.