Jakarta Globe, Jan 15, 2015
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| Six people will be executed on Jan. 18, according to Indonesia's attorney general. (AFP Photo/Romeo Gacad) |
Jakarta.
Indonesia’s attorney general announced on Thursday that the country would
execute six convicted drug traffickers on Sunday, five of whom are foreign
citizens.
“The
execution of five people will be carried out on Jan. 18 in Nusa Kambangan and
one other in Boyolali, Central Java,” Attorney General M.Prasetyo said in
televised press conference on Thursday.
Prasetyo
said the execution would be carried out in the maximum-security prison Nusa
Kambangan for safety reasons.
He added
that the executions would take place at the same time.
The
condemned inmates have been allowed full access to their country’s consular
services, Prasteyo said.
“Representatives
from the embassies have come to Nusa Kambangan and Cilacap to visit their
citizen, we gave them all access they needed,” Prasetyo said.
There are
136 inmates currently on death row, according to AGO data, with 64 of them
sentenced for drug trafficking, two for terrorism and the rest for murder or
aggravated robbery.
The death
penalty in Indonesia is carried out by firing squad. Joko Widodo disappointed
death-penalty campaigners in December when he said he would not offer clemency
to convicted drug traffickers.
Indonesia
resumed the execution of death row inmates in 2013, under President Susilo
Bambang Yudhoyono.
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