Indonesia performs death sentences after Ramadan
jakarta - Indonesia will execute the death sentences of eighteen convicted drug traffickers as Ramadan is over.
Or among them foreigners wanted Attorney General Bambang Waluyo Monday not say.
The Islamic holy month of fasting ends in Indonesia probably on 6 July. Death sentences are on the prison island Kanbangan executed by firing squads.
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Since 2015 Indonesia has executed fourteen people, including the Dutchman Ang Kiem Soei and eleven other foreigners. In Indonesia are at least 121 people on death row, almost all of them for drug offenses. Among them are 35 foreigners.
The government of President Joko Widodo thinks it can deter drug traffickers with draconian punishments.,, It is a signal that we are waging war against drugs, 'said Attorney General Waluyo.
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