Dari milis lain : *Agama dibikin dengan tujuan supaya manusia memperbaiki tingkahlakunya. * *Begitu pula dengan penjara, selain untuk menghukum, juga utk memperbaiki tingkahlaku manusia. *
*Melihat kebersamaan tujuan tsb, tentunya diharapkan ada korelasi :* *(a) semakin banyak orang beragama-beribadah semakin kosong penjara dan sebaliknya* *(b) semakin kurang orang beragama-beribadah semakin penuh penjara.* *Apa yang terjadi di Nederland adalah sebaliknya :* *sudah sejak lama orang yang beribadah tiap tahun berkurang kira2 1%,* *sedangkan sejak lebih dari 10 tahun terakhir penjara makin kosong, sampai ada yang ditutup, malah juga import prisoner / napi.* *Disini terlihat ... tidak ada.... korelasi antara beragama-beribadah dan penjara. * *Baik buruk tingkah seseorang tergantung budiperkerti, ibaratnya kulit yg melekat dibadan, selalu dibawa kemana dia pergi. * *Sedangkan agama adalah baju yang bisa ditukar, seperti banyak terjadi karena pernikahan, ataupun dirangkap seperti orang Jepang menganut Shintoisme dan Budhisme. * *Kekurangan Penjahat, 24 Penjara di Belanda Tutup Sejak 2013* Kompas.com - 01/06/2017 AMSTERDAM, KOMPAS.com - Pada 2013, pemerintah Belandamenutup 19 lembaga pemasyarakatan karena kekurangan pelaku kejahatan untuk mengisinya. Kini, jumlah penjara yang ditutup bertambah lima lagi sehingga sejak empat tahun lalu sudah 24 penjara berhenti beroperasi. Penutupan lima penjara ini setidaknya mengakibatkan hampir 2.000 orang kehilangan pekerjaan mereka. Alhasil pada September tahun lalu, Belanda <http://indeks.kompas.com/tag/Belanda> "mengimpor" 240 pelaku kriminal dari Norwegia hanya untuk mengisi penjara <http://indeks.kompas.com/tag/penjara>-penjaranya yang kosong. Hanya 700 orang dari mereka yang mengalami transisi ke pekerjaan baru yang belum ditetapkan dalam sistem penegakan hukum Belanda. Sebenarnya, tren ditutupnya penjara di Belanda sudah mulai terlihat sejak angka kejahatan menurun sejak 2004. Belanda saat ini memiliki penduduk 17 juta, dan hanya 11.600 orang yang menjadi narapidana. Itu artinya hanya 69 untuk setiap 100.000 orang. Bandingkan dengan Amerika Serikat yang sebanyak 716 dari 100.000 orang warganya mendekam di dalam penjara. Angka ini juga merupakan yang tertinggi di dunia. http://internasional.kompas.com/read/2017/06/01/09330651/ kekurangan.penjahat.24.penjara.di.belanda.tutup.sejak.2013 *JAPAN* *Religions:* Shintoism 79.2%, Buddhism 66.8%, Christianity 1.5%, other 7.1% https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ja.html *NETHERLANDS* *Religions:* Roman Catholic 28%, Protestant 19% (includes Dutch Reformed 9%, Protestant Church of The Netherlands, 7%, Calvinist 3%), other 11% (includes about 5% Muslim and fewer numbers of Hindu, Buddhist, Jehovah's Witness, and Orthodox), *none 42%* (2009 est.) https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/nl.html *USA* *Religions:* Protestant 46.5%, Roman Catholic 20.8%, Mormon 1.6%, Jehovah's Witness 0.8%, other Christian 0.9%, Jewish 1.9%, Muslim 0.9%, Buddhist 0.7%, Hindu 0.7%, other 1.8%, unaffiliated 22.8%, don't know/refused 0.6% (2014 est.) https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html *INDONESIA* *Religions:* Muslim 87.2%, Christian 7%, Roman Catholic 2.9%, Hindu 1.7%, other 0.9% (includes Buddhist and Confucian), unspecified 0.4% (2010 est.) https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/id.html *Church attendance in decline * 23/12/2013 A small majority of 54 percent in the adult Dutch population defined themselves as religious <https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/artikelen/nieuws/2013/51/church-attendance-in-decline/religious> in 2012 versus 60 percent in 1999. Last year, 16 percent of adults regularly went to a church, mosque or other religious meeting at least once a month versus one quarter in 1999. Church attendance declined notably among older people: among 55 to 65-year-olds from 33 to 16 percent and among 65 to 75-year-olds from 39 to 22 percent. The decline is far less substantial among 18 to 34-year-olds; 12 percent attend religious services on a regular basis. Church attendance among 35 to 64-year-olds is marginally higher. https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2013/51/church-attendance-in-decline *Two-thirds of people in Netherlands have no religious faith Society* March 14, 2016 Fewer than a third of Dutch people have a religious faith and nearly one in four describe themselves as atheists, according to the latest census of belief in the Netherlands. The trend towards secularisation also saw a decline in the number of people describing themselves as spiritual, which dropped from 40% 10 years ago to 31%. The number who believed in the existence of a higher power fell from 36% to 28% over the same period. Overall 25% of people identified themselves as Christian, while 5% were Muslim and 2% belonged to another faith group. The survey also found support for the separation of church and state, with a majority saying that politics and education should not be influenced by religion. Within the Christian group the survey also found a trend towards more secular beliefs. Just 13% of Catholics believe in heaven and fewer than half believe that Jesus is the son of God. The trend was less pronounced among the Protestant congregations. Around 2,100 people were canvassed for the ‘God in Nederland’ survey, which has been carried out every 10 years since 1996. http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2016/03/two-thirds- of-people-in-netherlands-have-no-religious-faith/
