illustration : execution
Attorney General’s Office (AGO) has been executing to death four of the fourteen drugs dealers-convicted in Nusakambangan Island, Central Java, in early morning of 29 July 2016. Those drugs dealer that has been executed are Freddy Budiman, Michael Titus, Humphrey Ejike, and Seck Osmane. This policy of AGO had been attracts wide consideration from all over country. Well, it as been natural since the implementation of the death penalty in Indonesia is always controversial. There are always pros and cons behind each execution of the death penalty against the drugs dealers-convicted in Indonesia.
Public also highlighted the AGO’s steps that “just” executing the four convicts from the previous fourteen that had been promised. AGO themselves are not too detailed to provide information related to the execution of those four convicted that had been executed. AGO only stands to reason that the execution of the rest will be implemented later, waiting for the results of a comprehensive study that takes into account the judicial aspect and the level of crime committed by the convict. However, there are few people who argue that the postponing execution was caused by the tug of the interests of the execution. AGO just gives a “normative response” and reluctant to provide detailed information, in order to avoid unnecessary noise.
The death penalty in Indonesia, especially for the drugs dealer-convicted, has always been a controversial issue. There are few people who considered that the implementation of the death penalty against the drugs dealer was ineffective and likely to violate the Human Rights. Moreover, the legal system in Indonesia tends to corrupt, so the execution is very prone to be “abused”. AGO policy to delay the death sentences of those ten drugs dealers recently was being as an excuse that the law in Indonesia is still corrupt, which leads to questioning the legitimacy of the death penalty that currently applied.
However, the implementation of the death penalty in Indonesia, especially against the drugs dealer also has some advantages. According to the Head of the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) Budi Waseso, drugs have great adverse impacts to the nation, especially to the younger generation, so that the death penalty to those drugs dealers is quite right. It is because the drugs had killed many life of its users, especially the younger generation. In other words, executing the drugs dealers to death is one of the government’s way that quite effective to rescue young people from the dangers of drugs. Therefore, it can be deduced that the death penalty actually can serve as a “protector” of the lives of the younger generation from the drugs. So it is not wrong if some people say that the death penalty is another form of human rights enforcement in Indonesia.
