Indonesia's executions of drug convicts likely postponed as officials leave

BANGKOK: -- The Jakarta Post reported that the execution of 10 convicts on Nusakambangan prison island in Cilacap, Central Java, will most likely be postponed, with the relevant officials leaving the regency.

Officials from the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) and the National Police checked out of their hotels on Friday, said a receptionist of the Wijaya Kusuma Hotel on Saturday. She said that as of Thursday, her hotel had been fully occupied by mostly police personnel.

Earlier, almost all hotels in Cilacap, especially those located in downtown Cilacap, had enjoyed full occupancy rates, as two high-profile convicts, Australians Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan of the so-called Bali Nine drug trafficking gang, were escorted to Nusakambangan for execution.

A member of staff at Sindoro Hotel said the hotel had been fully booked a week before the Bali Nine duo had arrived in Nusakambangan. They were booked for a week’s stay, starting from March 3.

Yet, on Saturday, the staff said, many of the hotel’s rooms were already vacant.

Meanwhile, Ursa Supit, the lawyer of Nigerian death-row inmate Raheem Agbaje Salami, who has been in Cilacap for three days, confirmed the departures. He said the government might have to reconsider postponing the executions, as many of the death-row convicts scheduled to be executed were still undergoing the legal process.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/indonesias-executions-of-drug-convicts-likely-postponed-as-officials-leave


-- Thai PBS 2015-03-09

Why has Indonesia turned so blood thirsty? Drug crimes just DO NOT deserve the death penalty.

Why has Indonesia turned so blood thirsty? Drug crimes just DO NOT deserve the death penalty.

That's your opinion, which you're entitled to.

Many disagree.

Either legalize drugs, or remove the death penalty completely, or remove death sentences for drug offences, or if you keep it, and people are convicted and sentenced then it has to be carried out.

Countries that have the death penalty for drugs make no secret of it. Those breaking the law no the risks and are prepared to take them.

Why has Indonesia turned so blood thirsty? Drug crimes just DO NOT deserve the death penalty.

That's your opinion, which you're entitled to.

Many disagree.

Either legalize drugs, or remove the death penalty completely, or remove death sentences for drug offences, or if you keep it, and people are convicted and sentenced then it has to be carried out.

Countries that have the death penalty for drugs make no secret of it. Those breaking the law no the risks and are prepared to take them.

Never heard of Thai and Malaysian women that usually doesnt get attention, not easy on the eye, maybe are a single mother, that gets groomed for 6 months by a foreign man? Love can make people blind.

Im talking about asian women that become drug-mules.

Some might see a "easy" way to get quick cash, but I do believe that some women really get duped and fooled because of grooming.

Edited March 9, 201511 yr by BKKBobby

Why has Indonesia turned so blood thirsty? Drug crimes just DO NOT deserve the death penalty.

It's nothing new.. Developing country, Muslim and an inherited colonial legal system from a bygone era which has no doubt been more islamised.

Get on with the job of wiping drug runners out of our society.

Step up Indonesia and stop playing around jokowi!!

As the other poster said, they know the crime brings the ultimate fine so they took the chance.

Why has Indonesia turned so blood thirsty? Drug crimes just DO NOT deserve the death penalty.

They are drug dealers on a large scale

How many lives have the destroyed with their drugs?

If the country's law says it is the penalty then so be it

Death it is

Now the sly and vile former President Megawati Sukarnoputrid says they must be executed because drugs has spread HIV. Maybe in some cases it's true, but a major factor in the spread of HIV in Indonesia (and deaths from untreated HIV) came from the fact that under her regime, medication, testing equipment and Neo-natal screening plans were STOLEN from the people of Indonesia by corrupt officials under her control, making them too expensive to reach those most in need. Foreign donors complained, she did NOTHiNG. Vile, scum of the earth bitch.

Why has Indonesia turned so blood thirsty? Drug crimes just DO NOT deserve the death penalty.

Agreed. But you are not including the couriers, right? Any drug couriers must face the full force of politically-motivated "sovereignty," I mean criminal law.

Why has Indonesia turned so blood thirsty? Drug crimes just DO NOT deserve the death penalty.

They are drug dealers on a large scale

How many lives have the destroyed with their drugs?

If the country's law says it is the penalty then so be it

Death it is

What about Serge Atlaoui? Is he a drug dealer on a large scale? He hasn't even had a judicial review. What if he was—as he has consistently claimed—welding machinery in what he had been told was an acrylic factory? What about the Filipino woman, whose translator at trial was not even an accredited court translator? So be it? Really?

Why has Indonesia turned so blood thirsty? Drug crimes just DO NOT deserve the death penalty.

That's your opinion, which you're entitled to.

Many disagree.

Either legalize drugs, or remove the death penalty completely, or remove death sentences for drug offences, or if you keep it, and people are convicted and sentenced then it has to be carried out.

Countries that have the death penalty for drugs make no secret of it. Those breaking the law no the risks and are prepared to take them.

When you are warned before hand, then you are killing your self, don't blame the government for that, every country has its likes and dislikes, people even still get stoned to death for shagging around in some countries, what is worse, that, or drug smuggling, which would you choose deserves the death penalty, if you had to choose, and please don't say none

Now the sly and vile former President Megawati Sukarnoputrid says they must be executed because drugs has spread HIV. Maybe in some cases it's true, but a major factor in the spread of HIV in Indonesia (and deaths from untreated HIV) came from the fact that under her regime, medication, testing equipment and Neo-natal screening plans were STOLEN from the people of Indonesia by corrupt officials under her control, making them too expensive to reach those most in need. Foreign donors complained, she did NOTHiNG. Vile, scum of the earth bitch.

Probably one of the most corrupt politicians of recent years, her greed knew no boundaries. If anyone should face a firing squad it should be her. Don't think she would shed any tears over the deaths of a couple of Aussies, she wasn't exactly bothered over those who were killed in the Bali bombings and they weren't drug smugglers. Rot in hell.

Why has Indonesia turned so blood thirsty? Drug crimes just DO NOT deserve the death penalty.

indonesia has ALWAYS been like this! there are signs in the terminals that say drug smuggling is punishable by the death penality! only a fool would attempt to take drugs inor out of indonesia!

Why has Indonesia turned so blood thirsty? Drug crimes just DO NOT deserve the death penalty.

Yes, they DO!

Why has Indonesia turned so blood thirsty? Drug crimes just DO NOT deserve the death penalty.

That's your opinion, which you're entitled to.

Many disagree.

Either legalize drugs, or remove the death penalty completely, or remove death sentences for drug offences, or if you keep it, and people are convicted and sentenced then it has to be carried out.

Countries that have the death penalty for drugs make no secret of it. Those breaking the law no the risks and are prepared to take them.

There is also many of the opinion that life in prison is worse then a death sentence