Indonesia to Keep Applying Death Penalty for Drug Crimes
- Foreign minister tells Bloomberg `we have to enforce our law'
- Also discusses effort to promote tolerant Islam around world
This article is for subscribers only.
Indonesia will continue to apply the death penalty to convicted drug traffickers despite international opposition fanned by the executions of 12 foreign convicts last year, the country’s foreign minister said.
The continuing use of the law was justified by a “drug emergency" in Southeast Asia’s largest nation, Retno Marsudi said in an interview with Bloomberg News in Jakarta.