Jakarta.
The Indonesian government has announced a moratorium on carrying out the death
penalty in order to focus on improving a sputtering economy.
Luhut
Pandjaitan, the coordinating minister for political, legal and security
affairs, told reporters in Jakarta on Thursday that President Joko Widodo would
not authorize any more executions pending efforts to revive the economy, which
is growing at its slowest pace in six years.
“The
government needs to focus on Indonesia's economy first,” Luhut said, without
giving a time frame for the suspension of executions.
The Joko
administration has drawn widespread condemnation from the international
community for reviving the death penalty that the previous administration of
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had largely shelved.
Under Joko,
Indonesia has this year put to death 14 people convicted of drug offenses, 12
of them foreign nationals, including a mentally ill Brazilian and two
Australians who had reformed and were providing classes and ministry for fellow
prisoners.
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