JAKARTA, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- As many as 350 police personnel in Indonesia were dismissed for human rights violations per year, an Indonesian senior police officer said on Monday.

    "As of now we have dismissed a total of 5,000 personnel for such a violation and 300 of them were already imprisoned," the Antara news agency quoted Indonesia police head of legal division Aryanto Sutadi as saying in a seminar that discussed human rights issue in South Sulawesi province's capital city of Makassar on Monday.

    Aryanto said that most of police who committed human rights violation came from low-rank police, accounting for 90.46 percent of the total violators.

    With more than 374,000 active police serving in thousands of posts across the country, Aryanto said that police headquarters face difficulty to deliver human rights training for them.

    To prevent the police from committing human rights violation, Aryanto said that the police headquarters had issued guideline No.8/2009 that obliges Indonesian police to abide by human rights values while carrying out their tasks.