Tuesday 26 September 2006

Executions in Indonesia since 1995

Indonesia has executed 13 people since 1995, with the execution of three men in Central Sulawesi last week. All executions were carried out by firing squad.

According to Amnesty International (AI), at least 90 people are now believed to be under sentence of death in Indonesia.

AI said the latest executions were the first it had recorded in Indonesia since May 2005. "This raises strong fears for the fate of all those who are currently awaiting execution," it said.

In the past 11 years, Indonesia has carried out the following known executions:

2006
Name: Marinus Riwu, 49 (m)
Nationality: Indonesian
Executed: 22 September 2006
At: Palu, Sulawesi
Convicted of: Premeditated murder and inciting riots in the town of Poso in May 2000

Name: Dominggus da Silva, 43 (m)
Nationality: Indonesian
Executed: 22 September 2006
At: Palu, Sulawesi
Convicted of: Premeditated murder and inciting riots in the town of Poso in May 2000

Name: Fabianus Tibo, 61 (m)
Nationality: Indonesian
Executed: 22 September 2006
At: Palu, Sulawesi
Convicted of: Premeditated murder and inciting riots in the town of Poso in May 2000

2005
Name: Turmudi bin Kasturi (m)
Nationality: Indonesian
Executed: May 2005
At: --
Convicted of: Murder

Name: Astini (f)
Nationality: Indonesian
Executed: March 2005
At: --
Convicted of: Murder

2004
Name: Saelow Prasert (m)
Nationality: Thai
Executed: 1 October 2004
At: --
Convicted of: Drug trafficking (attempt to smuggle 12.19 kilograms of heroin into Indonesia)

Name: Namsong Sirilak (f)
Nationality: Thai
Executed: 1 October 2004
At: --
Convicted of: Drug trafficking (attempt to smuggle 12.19 kilograms of heroin into Indonesia)

Name: Ayodhya Prasad Chaubey (m)
Nationality: Indian
Executed: 5 August 2004
At: --
Convicted of: Drug trafficking (attempt to smuggle 12.19 kilograms of heroin into Indonesia)

2001-2004
De facto moratorium on executions

2001
Name: Gerson Pandie (m)
Nationality: Indonesian
Executed: 2001
At: Kupang, Nusa Tenggara Timur Province
Convicted of: Murder

Name: Fredik Soru (m)
Nationality: Indonesian
Executed: 2001
At: Kupang, Nusa Tenggara Timur Province
Convicted of: Murder

1995-2001
De facto moratorium on executions

1995
Name: Katjong Laranu (m)
Nationality: Indonesian
Executed: 1995
At: --
Convicted of: Murder

Name: Karta Tjahyadi (m)
Nationality: Indonesian
Executed: 1995
At:
Convicted of: Murder

Name: Chan Ting Chong (Steven Chong) (m)
Nationality: Malaysian
Executed: 13 January 1995
At: --
Convicted of: Drug trafficking (first person known to have been executed for drug-related offences in Indonesia)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

you forgot the two nigerian executed this june 15 for smuggling more than 3kg of heroin.

Asia Death Penalty said...

Hi Anon, this post was written in September 2006. The ADP story on the Nigerians from June is posted at: http://asiadeathpenalty.blogspot.com/2008/06/indonesia-drug-offenders-executed-more.html.

Aside from the Nigerians and the Bali bombers, there have been five other executions this year in Indonesia.

I will shortly be posting an updated list of executions in Indonesia, which includes the Nigerians.