MORE WILL BE EXECUTED FOR DRUGS ABUSES IN INDONESIA
Jakarta, 28 Rabi’ul Awwal 1436/19 January 2014 (MINA) – Indonesia will execute more people convicted of drugs offences, following its first execution on Sunday, according to General Attorney Agung M Prasetyo.
Prasetyo said the attorney general’s office is preparing the execution for about hundreds of those convicted to death. “We will do it as soon as the files have been completed,” Prasetyo said, Sunday.
According to the latest report of the attorney general’s office, there are at least 137 convicted to death are awaiting for their legal fulfillment and technical aspects of execution. Most of the convicted to death in Indonesia come from Nigeria and Malaysia.
Early Sunday, Indonesia has executed six people convicted of drug offences in the first executions carried out under new President Joko Widodo.
The two women and four men were executed by firing squad included five foreigners from Brazil, the Netherlands, Vietnam, Malawi and Nigeria.
Two Australians – Myuran Sukamaran and Andrew Chan – remain on the death row for their roles in the so-called Bali Nine’s attempt to traffic heroin into Australia.
Despite international outcry, Indonesia majority support this death verdict law that began strictly imposed under Joko Widodo administration.
International tension
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has appealed directly to President Joko Widodo to show mercy on the two Australians.
Brazil and the Netherlands recalled their ambassadors in Indonesia after Jakarta ignored their pleas for clemency and executed their nationals.
Indonesia has tough anti-drugs laws and Mr Widodo, who took office in October, has disappointed rights activists by voicing strong support for capital punishment despite his image as a reformist.
A spokesman for the attorney-general’s office, Tony Spontana, said all the prisoners were executed around the same time, shortly after midnight.
They were sentenced to death between 2000 and 2011.
Vietnamese woman Tran Thi Bich Hanh was executed in Boyolali district in central Java, while five others were put to death on Nusakambangan Island, home to a high-security prison, off the south coast of the archipelago’s main island of Java.
They included an Indonesian woman, Rani Andriani, along with 53-year-old Brazilian Marco Archer Cardoso Moreira and 62-year-old Dutchman Ang Kiem Soei.
A Nigerian, Daniel Enemuo, and Namaona Denis, from Malawi, were also executed.
Indonesia statement
Indonesia Foreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi said that it was part of law enforcement without neglecting good relations between Indonesia and the convicts’ countries of origin.
“What we do is not to fight these countries. Please understand, those convicted to death have done serious crimes that threaten the nation of Indonesia,” She stressed.
Meanwhile, Head of the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) Commissioner General Anang Iskandar appreciate the execution step as part of Indonesia protection for its people drugs free-zone. (T/R04/P3)
Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)
