More than 30 people die from drug-related causes every day in Indonesia, and as part of the war on drugs the government has also restored the death penalty and executed 18 drug traffickers since 2015, including 15 foreigners – 8 from Nigeria, 2 each from Australia and Brazil, and 1 from each of Malawi, the Netherlands and Vietnam. Indonesia: Death Penalty/Fear of imminent execution 10 July 2008 , Index number: ASA 21/011/2008 The Indonesian authorities intend to execute the four people named in this action, who have been convicted of murder, before the end of July 2008. Death penalty in Indonesia: an executioner's story This article is more than 5 years old.


Though the death penalty existed as a punishment from the inception of the Republic of Indonesia, the first judicial execution did not take place until 1973. Indonesia sentenced to death 48 people last year, including 15 foreigners convicted of drug crimes, according to the latest global report on capital …