Indonesia drug smugglers are about to meet their untimely demise as part of the country's move to impose stricter drug laws.
According to Stuff.co.nz, the execution of the Indonesia drug smugglers is to be reapplied amid worldwide petition to spare the lives of the convicts.
Indonesian officials insisted that the sentencing to death on drug charges of the six convicts - five foreigners and one Indonesian woman - will be pushed through despite efforts to stop it.
It can be noted that Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has made a last-minute appeal to the Indonesian officials to spare her countryman, Marco Moreira, who is an ex-pilot.
On the other hand, the Dutch government "will not change or delay the execution" of its countryman Ang Kiem Soei.
The other three foreign convicts were identified as follows: Namaona Denis of Malawi, Tran Thi Bich Hanh of Vietnam and Daniel Enemuo of Nigeria.
The Indonesian convict was identified as Rani Andriani.
Yahoo! News has learned that all convicted Indonesia drug smugglers have been charged from 2000 to 2011. They are to be executed simultaneously in pairs, but at different locations.
Per previous reports, President Joko Widodo rejected clemency requests back in December.
"What we do is merely aimed at protecting our nation from the danger of drugs," Attorney General Muhammad Prasetyo said Thursday. "There is no excuse for drug dealers, and hopefully this will have a deterrent effect."
While the Indonesian government strongly approves the execution of the Indonesia drug smugglers, Amnesty International says the death sentence is nowhere near the country's promise of improving respect for human rights, Global News reports.
Meanwhile, since the country continues to impose very strict drug rules, about 138 people are currently on death row and nearly a third of them are foreigners.
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