INDONESIA: PRESIDENT WIDODO COMMUTES CONVICTED KILLER'S DEATH SENTENCE TO LIFE

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has granted the clemency request filed by Dwi Trisna Firmansyah, 28, an inmate convicted of premeditated murder, and changed his sentence from death to life imprisonment.
Dwi’s lawyer, Asep Ruhiat, said he received a copy of the Presidential Decree (Keppres) No.18/G/2015 on the clemency from the Gobah Penitentiary, Pekanbaru, where the convict has been incarcerated for the last three years, on March 13. The Pekanbaru District Court (PN) confirmed the granting of clemency.
 “President Jokowi, through the State Secretariat, decided the Presidential Decree in Jakarta on Feb.13,” Asep told The Jakarta Post on March 15.
 “The Presidential Decree does not detail considerations on why President Jokowi granted the clemency request, except saying that the convict is eligible to receive clemency,” he went on.
Dwi is one of three death row convicts involved in the robbery and planned killings of Agusni Bahar, owner of the Niagara Ponsel store on Jl. Kaharuddin Nasution, Pekanbaru, and his son, Dodi Haryanto.
The three convicts brutally killed their victims when they were performing the Subuh prayer on April 16, 2012. 
The PN Pekanbaru’s judicial panel led by Ida Bagus Dwiyantara sentenced the three suspects to death in a trial on Sept. 25, 2012.