The Indonesian government has carried out
executions of four convicted drug traffickers,
while sparing the lives of 10 other prisoners, Al
Jazeera has learned.
The convicts were shot by firing squad at the
Nusa Kambangan penal island shortly after
midnight on Friday local time (1700 GMT on
Thursday) amid pouring rain, according to TV
reports.
Al Jazeera's Step Vaessen, reporting from
Jakarta, said among those who were executed
were two Nigerian citizens, a South African
citizen and one Indonesian.
"All the others are still waiting their trials to be
reexamined," our correspondent said. "It's not
very clear what actually were the last
conclusions why these executions didn't take
place. But the government is saying it has
something to do with legal issues."
The attorney general's office had said earlier on
Thursday that 14 people, including foreigners,
would be executed "soon".
The lawyer of Pakistani prisoner Zulfikar Ali
earlier told our correspondent that his client was
not among those who had reportedly been
executed.
Al Jazeera's Vaessen said there had been "a lot of
pressure" until the last minute to stop the
executions.
The executions were the third set carried out
since President Joko Widodo took office in
October 2014.
Widodo's two-year-old administration will have
executed more people than were executed in the
previous decade. Fourteen were put to death last
year. But one prisoner, a woman from the
Philippines, was spared the death penalty at the
last minute.
The European Union and the UN High
Commissioner for Human Rights had called on
Indonesia to impose an immediate moratorium
on executions, and the Indian and Pakistani
governments also made urgent efforts to save
two nationals among the condemned.
The Indonesian government said the death
penalty is necessary for narcotics-related crimes
because the country was facing a drugs
epidemic, particularly affecting young people.
But critics argue that capital punishment is not
an effective deterrent and some have also
questioned the accuracy of the government's
drug abuse statistics.
The government of Jokowi's predecessor did not
carry out executions between 2009 and 2012, but
resumed them in 2013.


www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/07/reports-indonesia-executes-convicted-drug-traffickers-160728182341683.html

With all this, some people will still smuggle drugs.
Even if u re a truck pusher, there is dignity in labour. We ve stories of bread sellers, traffic hawkers, screen wipers etc becoming super stars nd celebrities. Never neglect d days of humble beginning. D country is hard, we knw dat bt hardwork pays.
Don't follow short cuts to success cos there isn't any at all.
Work hard, don't do/push drugs.