Attorney General M Prasetyo has stressed that a third round of drug convict executions will be carried
out next year.
He has yet to add further details with regard to
schedule or the number of convicts that the government expects to execute.
“The executions will be implemented in 2016. This
should become our focus. Law enforcement should keep moving ahead,” said
Prasetyo at the Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Minister’s office on
Wednesday as quoted by kompas.com.
The third round of executions should have been carried
out sometime this year, but the executions were delayed due to economic
reasons. It is commonly feared that further executions will hinder the flow of
investment into Indonesia.
To date, 14 drugs drug convicts have been executed.
The previous executions received strong criticism from anti-death penalty
activists and caused the souring of diplomatic relations with a number of
countries including Brazil and Australia.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff responded to the
execution of a Brazilian citizen by ordering its ambassador to return to Brazil
and a similar move was made by the Australian government, whom lost two of its
citizens.
Prasetyo, however, said that the executions had been
approved of by many neighboring countries because they considered Indonesia to
be serious in the fight against drugs
.“Our neighbors appreciate our action because drugs
are our common enemy,” he added.
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