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[Rick Halperin]

INDONESIA:


STOP IMMINENT EXECUTION OF FIVE PRISONERS Five death row prisoners in Indonesia 
have been moved to
separate cells and are believed to be at risk of imminent execution. 
Indonesia’s new government has
said publicly that it plans to carry out the five executions this year and 20 
more in 2015.

View the full Urgent Action, including case information, addresses and sample 
messages, here.

On 28 November 2014, the Junior Attorney General for General Crimes, Basyuni 
Masyarif, announced
that the government was planning to execute five individuals currently on death 
row, who have
exhausted all of their legal and clemency appeals, before the end of 2014. He 
also stated that
another 20 executions are scheduled for 2015.

Around the 3rd Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Ministerial 
Meeting on Drug Matters
in Jakarta on 3 December, the Indonesian Vice-President, Jusuf Kalla, stated 
that the President will
not grant clemency to at least 64 individuals who have been sentenced to death 
for drug-related
crimes and that there are plans to execute them.

News reports on 4 December indicate that one of the five individuals facing 
imminent execution is
detained in Tangerang, Banten province, and two others in Batam, Riau Islands 
Province. All three
appear to be convicted of drug-related crimes. Two other prisoners, who appear 
to have been
sentenced to death for murder, are imprisoned in Nusakambangan, Central Java 
province. Reports also
suggest that they have now been isolated from other prisoners, three days 
before executions are due
to take place, as required by law. No executions have been carried out so far 
in 2014. There are at
least 130 people under sentence of death in Indonesia.

International law guarantees the right of all prisoners under sentence of death 
to apply for pardon
or commutation of the sentence and allows for the imposition of the death 
penalty only for the “most
serious crimes”. Drug-related offenses do not meet this threshold.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Indonesia resumed executions on 14 March 2013 after a 
four year hiatus, when
Adami Wilson, a 48-year-old Malawian national, was put to death for 
drug-trafficking. Four other
people were executed during 2013, three for murder and one other, a foreign 
national, for
drug-trafficking. The resumption of executions was a shocking and regressive 
step after years of
positive indications that Indonesia was moving away from the death penalty. In 
October 2012, after
news that the then President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono commuted the death 
sentence of a drug
trafficker, Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa had said the move was part of a 
wider push away from
the use of the death penalty in Indonesia. Also in 2012, the Supreme Court 
commuted the death
sentence of a drug trafficker to 12 years’ imprisonment and the President 
granted clemency for two
others who had been sentenced to death for drug trafficking.

View the full Urgent Action here.

Issue(s): Death Penalty, Legal concern, Imminent execution
UA: 305/14 Issue Date: 5 December 2014
Country: Indonesia

Please let us know if you took action so that we can track our impact!

EITHER send a short email to uan at aiusa.org with "UA 305/14" in the subject 
line, and include in the
body of the email the number of letters and/or emails you sent.

OR fill out this short online form to let us know how you took action.

Thank you for taking action! Please check with the AIUSA Urgent Action Office 
if sending appeals
after the below date. If you receive a response from a government official, 
please forward it to us
at uan at aiusa.org or to the Urgent Action Office address below.

HOW YOU CAN HELP

Please write immediately in English, Indonesian or your own language:
  *  Urging the authorities to immediately halt plans to execute the five 
individuals ;
  *  Calling on them to establish a moratorium on all executions with a view to 
abolishing the death
     penalty and to commute all death sentences to terms of imprisonment;
  *  Urging them to ensure that full information about the use of the death 
penalty in Indonesia is
     available publicly and that relatives and lawyers are given full access to 
death-row prisoners
     and information about their cases;
  *  Pointing out that the decision to resume executions has set Indonesia 
against the global trend
     towards abolition of the death penalty and the country’s own progress.

PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 16 JANUARY 2014 TO:

President of the Republic of Indonesia
H. E. Joko Widodo
Istana Merdeka
Jakarta Pusat 10110, Indonesia
Fax: 011 62 21 386 4816 /011 62 21 344 2233
Email: ppid at setkab.go.id
Salutation: Dear President


And copies to:
National Human Rights Commission
Chairperson
Hafid Abbas
Jl. Latuharhari No. 4B, Menteng
Jakarta Pusat 10310, Indonesia
Fax: 011 62 21 392 5227





Attorney General
H. M. Prasetyo
Jl. Sultan Hasanuddin No. 1, Jakarta Selatan, Jakarta 12160, Indonesia
Fax: 011 62 21 722 1269 / 011 62 21 725 0213
Email:
humas_puspenkum at yahoo.co.uk
Salutation: Dear Attorney General




Also send copies to: H.E. Ambassador Budi Bowoleksono, Embassy of the Republic 
of Indonesia
2020 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington DC 20036
Fax: 1 202 775 5365  I  Phone: 1 202 775 5200  I Email: 
ikuhn at embassyofindonesia.org  or
www.embassyofindonesia.org/contactform/contact-form.php



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