After the recent execution of six death-row convicts, 60 more, including a number of foreigners, will soon follow, says Attorney General Prasetyo.
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | National | Tue, January 20 2015, 1:37 PM
After the recent execution of six death-row convicts, 60 more, including a number of foreigners, will soon follow, says Attorney General Prasetyo.
“We still have ‘a stock’ of 60 more who will be executed,” he said in an editorial club meeting at the Office of the Coordinating Minister for Politics, Law and Security Affairs on Tuesday.
He added that the executions would prioritize drug convicts but declined to reveal when and where the executions would be carried out.
“The most important thing is that Indonesia will not bow to foreign pressure in implementing the death penalty. It will continue. Indonesia must be rescued,” he said as quoted by kompas.com.
On Sunday, six death-row convicts, including several foreigners, were executed in Nusakambangan and Boyolali, Central Java, sparking strong protests from the European Union, the Netherlands, Brazil and international human rights watchdogs.
Foreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi said she was sure the executions would not disrupt the bilateral ties between Indonesia and countries whose citizens were executed.
“We want other countries to look at this serious problem wisely. Drug crime is a serious matter that affects the Indonesian people. I have explained this problem from the start and we are ready to boost bilateral ties with all countries,” she said at the Presidential Palace on Monday. (***)(+++)