Attorney General Jaksa Agung Prasetyo

INDONESIA: EXECUTION OF SIX CONVICTS POSTPONED

January 5, 2015: Attorney General Jaksa Agung Prasetyo said the execution of six death-row convicts was postponed in line with legal requirements.
“By the end of last year we had actually planned to carry out the executions but they had to be postponed, this was merely because of legal requirements that had to be provided to the inmates,” he said at a press conference on the evaluation of the performance of the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) in 2014.
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo who declined to grant an amnesty to inmates sentenced to death in drug cases, instructed the attorney general in December 2014 to carry out the execution of death-row inmates to uphold court rulings.
Deputy Attorney General for general crimes Basyuni Masyarif, who accompanied Prasetyo at the press conference, said that six death row inmates were still requesting that the Supreme Court conduct judicial reviews of their cases.
According to him, the executions will face no more hindrances after the court has reviewed the inmates’ cases. He said the attorney general had instructed that the six death-row inmates face the firing squad as soon as possible.
Prasetya recently announced that 20 other death-row inmates, the majority of whom are drug convicts, would face the firing squad this year.
The most recent executions in Indonesia took place in 2013 when the Attorney General ordered the execution of two drug smugglers and three convicted murderers. (Sources: The Jakarta Post, 05/01/2015)