Indonesia executed four
convicted drug traffickers, including three
Nigerians, early on Friday as it pushed ahead
with its “war against drugs”, although
another 10 scheduled executions were
delayed.
As many as 14 people were originally set to
face the firing squad together on Friday, but
officials decided a “comprehensive review”
was needed to “avoid any mistake” in the 10
cases, Attorney General H. Muhammad
Prasetyo said.
The date for the next round of executions has
not been set, Prasetyo told reporters in
Jakarta.
At least two prisoners among that group of
10, a Pakistani national and an Indonesian
woman have applied for presidential
clemency, their representatives said.
They said legal proceedings could take a long
time.
Those executed – three Nigerians and an
Indonesian man – were shot during a
thunderstorm shortly after midnight on
Nusakambangan Island in Central Java.
The government ignored international calls for
clemency and pushed ahead with its drive
against narcotics.
“Our battle against drug crimes is not over
and it will continue. We will maintain our
commitment, our firmness and our
consistency,” Prasetyo said.
Indonesia has become a “business field” for
the production, distribution, import and
export of drugs, Prasetyo said.
Indonesia executed 14 prisoners, mostly
foreign drugs offenders, just over a year ago,
causing diplomatic outrage.
Rights activists and governments have again
called on Indonesia to abolish the death
penalty.
Those calls have gone unheeded and
President Joko Widodo has said drugs pose as
serious a threat as terrorism in what is one of
Southeast Asia’s biggest markets for
narcotics.
The president’s office often cites figures that
drugs are killing at least 40 people a day, but
several international experts have questioned
the methodology used to arrive at those
statistics.
The death penalty is widely accepted by the
Indonesian public, but police had to break up
a protest outside the prison on Thursday by
members of a migrant workers group who
called for mercy for the Indonesian woman
who was scheduled to be executed.
Amnesty International called the latest
executions “a deplorable act that violates
international and Indonesian law” and
pleaded that the other death sentences not
be carried out.
Around 152 people remain on death row in
Indonesia, including convicted drug
traffickers from the Philippines, France and
Britain, according to the Attorney General’s
Office.
Authorities plan to execute 16 prisoners this
year and more than double that number in
2017.

As with the last executions they did, they ignored the pleas.

They always execute without any diplomatic consequence. They will keep doing so.

I don't agree with capital punishment for drug trafficking though. Many years imprisonment should suffice.

tempest02:
As with the last executions they did, they ignored the pleas.

They always execute without any diplomatic consequence. They will keep doing so.

I don't agree with capital punishment for drug trafficking though. Many years imprisonment should suffice.

Capital punishment might be okay. They should be made to work very hard and pay hugely depending on the extent of whatever they have done. Though many years imprisonment should also be welcomed

The drugs trafickers should also heed the plea to stay away from drugs.

Sunnymatey:
The drugs trafickers should also heed the plea to stay away from drugs.

Its not easy bro. The economy isnt smilling

femmyadje:

Its not easy bro. The economy isnt smilling

You should be ashamed of yourself for making excuses for drugs by using bad economy.
The poorest countries in the world is not Nigeria so why are ibos doing drugs?
it is pure greed!

win3k:


You should be ashamed of yourself for making excuses for drugs by using bad economy.
The poorest countries in the world is not Nigeria so why are ibos doing drugs?
it is pure greed!

did u say ibos? are they the only ones involved in drugs? well i am no trying to justify those that are involved, i am just trying to say something will have pushed them to going into drugs which could be related to the economy. drugs was the mindset they might have had to having a good life, not knowing that they will end up dead through it. God help us and save our souls

win3k:


greed pushed these ibos, there is more poverty in other tribes and countries, they don't do drugs!!!!!!!

Well its really greed