INDONESIA: PRESIDENT ORDERS EXECUTION OF DEATH ROW CONVICTS

President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo ordered the execution of five death-row drug convicts this month, a move to uphold court rulings.
Jokowi summoned Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Tedjo Edhy Purdijatno to a meeting to discuss the matter.
Tedjo said it was not a unilateral decision by Jokowi, merely the President's instruction to implement the convicts’ sentences.
"The President has ordered the relevant authorities to carry out the court verdicts. Those [sentences] which have legally binding rulings should be implemented," Tedjo said.
The government is now waiting for the newly inaugurated attorney general, HM Prasetyo, to complete the paperwork required for the death sentence on the five convicts to be carried out.
Prasetyo recently announced that 20 other death-row inmates, the majority of whom are drug convicts, would face the firing squad in 2015.