<![CDATA[Compliance among parolees is often reduced to whether they show up for scheduled reporting. This article treats it instead as a social process that develops through the relationship between clients, their Community Supervisors (Pembimbing Kemasyarakatan, PK), and the wider social setting. A descriptive qualitative study was carried out at the Class I Correctional Center (Bapas) of Mataram with four PK and two parolees selected purposively. Data came from semi-structured in-depth interviews and document review, were analysed with the interactive model of Miles, Huberman, and Saldaña, and were checked through source triangulation. The findings were read through Hirschi’s social control theory, Berger and Luckmann’s social construction of reality, Tyler’s work on legitimacy, and Trotter’s model for working with involuntary clients. Compliance appeared to move through stages, from reporting out of obligation, to growing understanding of the obligation, to self-initiated contact with the supervisor; only some clients reach the last stage. Supervisors build trust from the pre-release social inquiry, use personal approaches, monitor clients periodically, involve them in guidance programmes, and try to instil belief in the norms. Their influence is strongest on attachment, while commitment and involvement remain limited because skills training rarely leads to employment. Compliance is shaped by personal determination, emotional control, peer environment, family support, access to work, stigma, and institutional limits, including a caseload of about 65 clients per supervisor across the whole island of Lombok. Clients came to see reporting as an obligation that gradually felt useful, although this rests on two interviews and should be read as preliminary.]]>
