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Despite Protests, Indonesia Moves Forward to Execute Drug Convicts

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From the article, the courts seem like a mess. As sad as it sounds, unsure much can be said or done here.
 
I have a special place in my heart for Indonesia as I lived there for three years. But their drug laws are very draconian. Unless you are connected. People in power there bring in tons of drugs for sell with impunity. I used to go to a huge popular night club in Jakarta where the waitresses openly sold ecstacy and other drugs. The place was owned by a General in the Indonesian Army. Police provided security.

The biggest crime of those drug smugglers about to be killed is that they were cutting into the profits of those in power.
 
if this is true, we should reexamine our trade relations with them. perhaps they'd enjoy a hefty tariff.
 
From the article, the courts seem like a mess. As sad as it sounds, unsure much can be said or done here.

Probably can't do anything at this point, but some of the recent reporting about drugs laws and the "War on Drugs" globally is almost entirely the fault of the USA who found another way to enrich our MIC as well as get boots on the ground in many countries we really don't belong having boots on the ground. Don't know for sure Indonesia is under that umbrella but it seems reasonable to recognize that most of the extreme drug enforcements started with US drug hysteria.
 
Indonesia appears as impervious to outside interference in their legal system as most other countries. I deplore the death penalty wherever it is applied, so I deplore this round of judicial murder. One day all civilised countries will realise that ritualised, state-sponsored murder puts them beyond the pale in the international community. It is the fact of state murder that makes Indonesia barbaric, not the specific circumstances of these individual cases.
 
Of course criminals will claim the legal system is unjust.

I say, good for Indonesia.

You just cannot pass up an opportunity to condone killing over something like this, can you?
 
Indonesia appears as impervious to outside interference in their legal system as most other countries. I deplore the death penalty wherever it is applied, so I deplore this round of judicial murder. One day all civilised countries will realise that ritualised, state-sponsored murder puts them beyond the pale in the international community. It is the fact of state murder that makes Indonesia barbaric, not the specific circumstances of these individual cases.

What are you going on about?

You just cannot pass up an opportunity to condone killing over something like this, can you?

Killing drug dealers? Heck ya.
 
Thoughts are?

The two Australians involved (Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan) are now just hours away from execution.

I cannot help but feel incredible sympathy for their family (the people who did not commit any crime) who were again today treated with such disrespect whilst trying to spend their last moments with their Sons. To see what they were unnecessarily subjected to in relation to making their way in and out of the prison defies humanity and was reprehensible. They were forced to go through a horrific gauntlet. A gauntlet of cameras, security people and dogs nipping at their heels and that of the Australian Consulate General. All for the show. The Indonesian Authorities should have taken control and offered assistance to at least let them retain some dignity.

The show of arrogance and indifference that Joko Widodo and the Indonesian Government have relentlessly shown around their case towards the Australian Government has been repulsive. Just a few of the many examples...
-The 72 hours notice given on ANZAC Day despite requests from my Government to please not announce it on this one day.

-Indonesian Police Officers taking smiling "selfies" with Chan and Sukamaran whilst they were being transported to Nusakambangan prison (Execution Island.)

-The ridiculous levels taken whilst transporting Chan and Sukamaran to Execution Island that were not applied to any of the other Non Australian Prisoners transported there who will be executed at the same time. The others were transported fuss free and with very minimal security, unlike the two Australians who had seperate armoured vehicles for the two, hundreds of Police Officers, the flight being escorted by Russian-made Sukhoi jets, helicopters etc. The prison governor has described Chan and Sukumaran as model prisoners and testified in court that they should not be executed because of the positive influence they have had over other prisoners and that both men have fully rehabilitated in the 10 years they have spent in Jail. Why then the ridiculous circus fanfare that was reserved for them only?

-Time and Time again, Widodo has refused to speak to the Australian Prime Minister. The Prime Minister of a Country who gives them 600 million in aid each year.

-There are allegations that the Justice is corrupt and that the very Justices who decided that these men should die wanted a bribe before doing so.

The Australian Government is not guilty of any crime, neither are Chan and Sukamaran's family. Perhaps our Indonesian "friends" - specifically Joko Widodo should remember that. The way they have handled this is beyond disgraceful.
 
Personally i believe the death penalty is not warranted for crimes of this nature. But apparently the people of Indonesia disagree and it is their country and their criminal justice system. I respect that.
Other than that I feel that nobody can fault the families and loved ones of those who are to be executed for doing what they can. But amidst all the wailing I hear very little concern for the victims of these convicted criminals.
 
Personally i believe the death penalty is not warranted for crimes of this nature. But apparently the people of Indonesia disagree and it is their country and their criminal justice system. I respect that.
Other than that I feel that nobody can fault the families and loved ones of those who are to be executed for doing what they can. But amidst all the wailing I hear very little concern for the victims of these convicted criminals.

:roll: read post four.
 
That actually amplifies my point.

Oh dear. So you sympathize with the governments right to kill people for doing what they are involved in routinely. Oh boy.
 
Oh dear. So you sympathize with the governments right to kill people for doing what they are involved in routinely. Oh boy.

Have you actually informed yourself about the particulars of this case and of what these persons were convicted for?
Also, as I wrote before, I personally wouldn't advocate the death penalty for these crimes. But the criminal justice system in Indonesia is a matter for the Indonesians.
 
Have you actually informed yourself about the particulars of this case and of what these persons were convicted for?
Also, as I wrote before, I personally wouldn't advocate the death penalty for these crimes. But the criminal justice system in Indonesia is a matter for the Indonesians.

Then don't weigh in if you consider it their business exclusively.
 
Have you actually informed yourself about the particulars of this case and of what these persons were convicted for?
Also, as I wrote before, I personally wouldn't advocate the death penalty for these crimes. But the criminal justice system in Indonesia is a matter for the Indonesians.

True to a point - unless they are corrupted.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/29/w...n-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
Another Nigerian who was executed did not have a lawyer when he tried to appeal his death sentence, while the Brazilian convict, Rodrigo Gularte, 42, had had schizophrenia and bipolar disorder since he was a teenager, conditions that his lawyers say should have disqualified him from criminal prosecution under Indonesian law.
 
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