Indonesia To Execute Nigerian, Nine Other Death-row Inmates This Month

Tony Spontana, Indonesian Attorney General’s spokesman, said on Friday in Jakarta that government may execute 10 death-row inmates, mostly drug convicts, late this month. Spontana said barring any unforeseen circumstances, the executions would be carried out this month after the Asia-Africa Conference that would run from April 19 to 23. Spontana said the drug offenders facing execution are from Nigeria, France, the Philippines, Indonesia, Brazil and Ghana. Attorney General, Muhammad Prasetyo, has said earlier that the10 death-row inmates would be executed at the same time. The French drug convict, Serge Atlaoui, still has his case review appeal pending. Meanwhile, Indonesia Foreign Ministry, on Friday in Jakarta, lodged a protest with Saudi Arabia over the second Indonesian domestic worker executed this week, saying it was not notified in advance. It said Karni-binti Medi-Tarsim, who was convicted of murdering a four-year-old child in 2012, was executed in the Saudi city of Madina on Thursday. The ministry said the execution came two days after fellow Indonesian maid, Siti Zainab, was put to death in the same city for murdering a Saudi woman in 1999. “Once again the Indonesian government conveyed its regret and disappointment that Indonesian representatives in Riyadh and Jeddah were not given prior notification whatsoever of the time and place of the execution,” it said. The ministry said it summoned the Saudi ambassador late on Thursday to explain the failure to notify Indonesia’s consular staff on details of the execution. The Indonesian government has said it prevented the executions of more than 200 of its citizens sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia and other countries since 2011.