Indonesia
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Retentionist
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · A Singaporean national, one Steven alias Tan Ching...
- News items in the archive
- 644
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Indonesia is classified as Retentionist in the Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026. In 2026 the association recorded 0 executions in the country, against 0 the year before. The archive holds 644 news items on Indonesia, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- DECEMBER 26, 2005IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
INDONESIA. PRESIDENT ASKED TO POSTPONE EXECUTION OF POSO CONFLICT CONVICTS
Indonesia’s National Awakening Party (PKB) asked President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to postpone the execution of three men sentenced to death for their role in the Poso conflict: Fabianus Tibo, Dominggus Dasilva and Marinus Riwu.
- DECEMBER 14, 2005EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Ali Darman Agustri
Ali Darman Agustri
- DECEMBER 7, 2005AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
INDONESIA. BUTT OUT ON DEATH PENALTY: BALI 9 JUDGE
the judges hearing the Bali Nine trials in Indonesia warned Australians not to interfere in Indonesia's right to impose capital punishment, insisting they would not allow their independence to be compromised.
- NOVEMBER 11, 2005IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
INDONESIA. CONVICTED INDONESIAN TERRORIST SEEKS REVIEW OF CASE
convicted Indonesian terrorist Ali Ghufron, sentenced to die for the 2002 bombing attacks on the resort island of Bali, decided to seek a judicial review of his case, his lawyer said.
- NOVEMBER 9, 2005IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
Malaysia. Indonesian sentenced to death for drug trafficking
a Malaysian court sentenced Indonesian nationals Agus Agil to death by hanging for trafficking in methamphetamines.
- OCTOBER 28, 2005IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
THE PHILIPPINES. MANILA COURT SENTENCES THREE MILITANTS TO DEATH
a Philippine court sentenced three Muslim militants, including an Indonesian, to death for the bombing of a bus that killed four people in Manila on February 14, 2005.
- OCTOBER 26, 2005AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
AUSTRALIA. POLICE DEFEND TIP-OFF THAT LEFT 'BALI NINE' FACING EXECUTION
Australian Federal Police commissioner Mick Keelty defended a tip-off to Indonesian authorities that left nine young Australians, the so-called "Bali Nine", facing the death penalty on drugs charges.
- OCTOBER 20, 2005IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
INDONESIA. FAMILY OF BALI BOMBERS ON DEATH ROW TO SEEK PRESIDENTIAL PARDON
the family of Amrozi and Ali Ghufron, two brothers sentenced to die by Indonesia’s Supreme Court for the 2002 Bali bombings, planned to seek a pardon from President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono despite objections of the men, their elder brother Ja'far Shodiq
- OCTOBER 17, 2005IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
INDONESIA. DEATH ROW MILITANTS FOR BALI BOMBS GET CHANCE FOR PARDON
Amrozi bin Nurhasyim and Imam Samudra on death row for their role in the 2002 Bali bombings would be given one more chance to request a pardon, officials told activists who held a protest to demand immediate executions for the convicts.
- OCTOBER 12, 2005IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
INDONESIA. PROTESTERS STORM BALI JAIL, DEMAND DEATH FOR BOMBERS
some 500 protesters demanding the immediate execution of three militants on death row over the 2002 blasts on Indonesia's Bali island broke into a jail on where the inmates had been incarcerated until they were moved the previous day, witnesses said.
- SEPTEMBER 27, 2005IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
INDONESIA. AUTHORITIES POSTPONE EXECUTION OF TWO BROTHERS FOR MURDER
Indonesian authorities postponed the scheduled execution of two brothers on death row for a premeditated triple murder.
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2005IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
MALAYSIA. INDONESIAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
a Malaysian court sentenced Mardani Hussin, an Indonesian man, to death by hanging for trafficking cannabis.
- SEPTEMBER 14, 2005IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
INDONESIA. SECOND MILITANT GETS DEATH FOR JAKARTA EMBASSY BLAST
an Indonesian court sentenced a second Islamic militant to death for helping plot and carry out last year's suicide car bomb attack outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta.
- SEPTEMBER 13, 2005IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
INDONESIA. JAKARTA COURT SENTENCES EMBASSY BOMBER TO DEATH
an Indonesian court sentenced to death Rois, also known as Iwan Dharmawan, the main defendant on trial over the 2004 suicide car bombing outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta that killed 10 people.
- AUGUST 14, 2005IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
an Iranian man was hanged in front of a crowd at a public square in the city of Arak
an Iranian man was hanged in front of a crowd at a public square in the city of Arak
- AUGUST 12, 2005IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
INDONESIA. PROSECUTORS DEMAND DEATH FOR AUSTRALIAN EMBASSY BOMBER
Indonesian magistrates demanded the death penalty for Iwan Darmawan, 30, also known as ‘Rois’, accused of purchasing the van and the explosive material used in the attack on the Australian Embassy in Jakarta which left 11 people dead on September 9, 2004.
- AUGUST 11, 2005IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
Iran’s Supreme Court upheld a death by hanging sentence for a young woman
Iran’s Supreme Court upheld a death by hanging sentence for a young woman
- AUGUST 4, 2005IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
INDONESIA. COURT SENTENCES TWO MEN TO DEATH FOR PRODUCTION OF ECSTASY
the South Jakarta district court, Indonesia, sentenced to death Sastra Wijaya, 47, and Yudha alias Akang. 33, after convicting them of working in an ecstasy factory in Cengkareng, West Jakarta.
- JULY 31, 2005IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
INDONESIA. ASSEMBLY CHIEF CALLS FOR DEATH PENALTY FOR GRAFT OFFENCES
the head of Indonesia's People's Consultative Assembly, Hidayat Nurwahid, called for tough punishment including the death penalty to eradicate deep-rooted corruption in the country.
- JULY 21, 2005IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
INDONESIA. PROSECUTORS SEEK DEATH PENALTY FOR MCDONALD BOMBER
Indonesian prosecutors recommended the death penalty for Agung Abdul Hamid for masterminding a bomb attack on a McDonald restaurant in South Sulawesi province that killed three people, including a suicide bomber.
- JULY 7, 2005IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
INDONESIA. COUNTRY PREPARES TO EXECUTE TWO BROTHERS FOR TRIPLE MURDER
Indonesian authorities would soon execute two brothers on death row for a premeditated triple murder during a robbery in the island of Sumatra in 2002, Antasari Azhar, chief prosecutor of West Sumatra province, said.
- JUNE 24, 2005IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
INDONESIA. ACEH HAS FIRST CANINGS UNDER MUSLIM LAW
Indonesia carried out its first public canings, punishing 15 gamblers in front of a noisy crowd in tsunami-hit Aceh, the only province in the world's most populous Muslim nation to implement Islamic law.
- JUNE 14, 2005IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
INDONESIA. PAKISTANI SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
an Indonesian court sentenced Zulfikar Ali, a Pakistani national, to death for drug trafficking. Judges at a district court in Tangerang, southwest of Jakarta, ruled that Ali was guilty of trafficking 300 grams (10.5 ounces) of heroin.
- JUNE 10, 2005IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
NEPAL. RIGHTS ACTIVISTS APPEAL FOR LIVES OF FIVE IN INDONESIA
human rights activists said the government must take immediate steps to stop the death sentence of five Nepalese nationals charged with drug trafficking in Indonesia.
- JUNE 8, 2005EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Egyptian Grand Mufti Prof Dr Sheikh Ali Gouma endorsed the death sentence passed by...
Egyptian Grand Mufti Prof Dr Sheikh Ali Gouma endorsed the death sentence passed by a Cairo court on Ali Darman Agustri, an Indonesian national, for premeditated multiple murder.
- JUNE 6, 2005EgyptDEATH PENALTY
the Abbsea state court in East Cairo, Egypt...
the Abbsea state court in East Cairo, Egypt, sentenced Indonesian national Ali Darman Agustri to death for premeditated multiple murder.
- JUNE 4, 2005AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
INDONESIA. RALLY FOR CORBY DEATH SENTENCE
about 40 people picketed in Jakarta, Indonesia, to demand the death sentence for Australian woman Schapelle Corby, in jail for drug trafficking in Bali.
- MAY 27, 2005AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
INDONESIA. BALI COURT SENTENCES AUSTRALIA'S CORBY FOR 20 YRS
an Indonesian court sentenced Australian beauty therapist Schapelle Corby to 20 years in jail for trying to smuggle 4.1 kg (9 lb) of marijuana into Bali.
- MAY 23, 2005IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
INDONESIA. BUSINESSMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING ASSOCIATES
the Lamongan district court in East Java, Indonesia, sentenced Nur Hasan to death for killing his three business associates.
- MAY 13, 2005IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
INDONESIA. MAN EXECUTED FOR MURDER
authorities in the Indonesian province of Jambi executed Turmudi bin Kasturi, a man sentenced to death over the killing of four people in 1997.