INDONESIA ATTORNEY GENERAL CRITICIZED OVER DEATH PENALTY

legal experts criticized Attorney General Saleh over his rigid stance regarding capital punishment in Indonesia. The Executive Director for the Center for Indonesian Law and Policy Studies, Bivitri Susanti, said “the deterrent effect of capital punishment has been proven ineffective, especially when court verdicts have turned out to be wrongly implemented ... It would be better for the government to make sure the jail terms imposed on prisoners are fully implemented," she said, citing that many inmates in Indonesia leave prison before completing their sentences.