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Why Indonesia Delays Execution of Death Row Convicts

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Executing death row inmates is currently not a top priority as Indonesia faces the urgency of solving economic, political and social gap issues.

Jakarta, GIVnews.com – A total of 153 convicted death row inmates are yet to be executed in Indonesia, facing undetermined execution timeline. Even Attorney General M Prasetyo could not tell when these convicts people will go to the gallows.

Is an execution delay good or bad? Regardless, some in the public had repetitively questioned such long execution delay faced by these prisoners. On the other hand, human rights groups had ceaselessly sought support from the international community for the abolishment of capital punishment in Indonesia while the government had adamantly defended its use of the death penalty.

Prasetyo said on Wednesday, “On the delay of their execution, I also cannot explain about it now. I can only say that there are still so many problems currently faced by this nation, which should be given a priority. So many things,” Prasetyo said in a parliamentary hearing on Wednesday (11/10) as reported by Detik.com.

The attorney general said the solution of existing economic, social and political problems as well as social gap issues should be given top priority.

Prasetyo said the current law on clemency for death row prisoners had also caused a delay in their execution. Such group of prisoners included former drug dealers.

Indonesia reportedly executed 39 death row convicts, including foreign nationals, in the past 10 years. Out of this total number, 18 went to the gallows under the government of President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo who took up his post in October 2014.

Source: Global Indonesian Voices, Leo Jegho, August 15, 2017


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