DEATH FOR CORRUPTION IS WRONG, INDONESIAN GOVT SAYS

following criticism by the antigraft watchdog, top Indonesian government officials said that capital punishment was intentionally removed from the proposed revision to the anticorruption law. Justice Minister Patrialis Akbar said that not only was the death penalty against accepted human rights norms, but it could also hamper asset seizures in foreign lands. “We use the international conventions [on human rights] as our reference,” Patrialis said. “There is no death penalty.”