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Indonesia to Resume Executions
JAKARTA, Indonesia – Indonesia plans to resume executions of 16 convicts after the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
Ramadan ends with the Eid al-Fitr holiday on July 6 and 7 in Indonesia.
Mohammad Rum, spokesman for the attorney-general’s office, did not say the names of the first ones to be executed.
Indonesia has been actively campaigning against drugs and has executed 14 drug convicts in 2015. They stopped the executions on April last year to focus on their economy.
The convicts were said to be executed by firing squad on Nusakambangan, the prison island off Java.
Filipina Mary Jane Veloso, who was pulled from the last round of executions, is among the drug convicts on death row in Indonesia.
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo declared a war on drugs in 2014 on account of the country facing an emergency due to the rise of the use of narcotics.
