JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – Coordinating Minister for Politics, Law, and Security Affairs Admiral (ret) Tedjo Edhy Purdijatno assured the government will soon execute two Australian drug smugglers on death row, Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, should the legal process on the two convicts known as the Bali Nine members be completed.
Tedjo said President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has ruled out to grant clemency for Myuran Sukumaran. While the decision over the clemency proposed by Andrew Chan is in the process.
Sukumaran and Chan were arrested when they tried to smuggle 8.3 kilograms heroin worth US$4 million from Indonesia to Australia. Both of them were sentenced to death back in 2006.
Jokowi’s administration has declared a war against the drug dealers through its firm action on executing drug dealers sentenced to death.
On Sunday (Jan. 18), six convicted drug dealers were executed by firing squads. They were Dutch citizen Ang Kim Soei, Brazilian citizen Marco Archer Cardoso Mareira, Malawi citizen Namaona Deni, Nigerian citizen Daniel Enemua, Indonesian citizen Rani Andriani aka Melisa Aprilia, and Vietnamese citizen Tran Thi Bich Hanh.
The first five were shot to death on the Nusakambangan Island, whereas the one Vietnamese woman was executed in the Boyolali District of Central Java. (haryantosuharman@yosefardi.com)