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RI needs to be 'articulate' in aftermath of executions
A professor of international law with the University of Indonesia, Hikmahanto Juwana, said Indonesia should tread carefully in facing the Australian governmentâs reaction to the execution of two ringleaders of the so-called Bali Nine drug trafficking group, early on Wednesday
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professor of international law with the University of Indonesia, Hikmahanto Juwana, said Indonesia should tread carefully in facing the Australian government's reaction to the execution of two ringleaders of the so-called Bali Nine drug trafficking group, early on Wednesday.
'The government needs to be articulate in responding to the Australian government's reaction to the executions of its citizens,' he said as quoted by Antara news agency in Jakarta on Wednesday.
Earlier, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said the Indonesian government would bear the consequences of executing the Bali Nine duo.
Abbott said Australia would show its unhappiness with the execution of two of its citizens.
Hikmahanto said if the Australian government issued a diplomatic protest note or withdrew its ambassador from Indonesia, the government did not need to react.
'This is because issuing a diplomatic protest note or withdrawing a top envoy is still within the corridors of ethical principles in international relationships between countries. This country [Australia] still respects the sovereignty of another country [Indonesia] despite its disappointment or unhappiness with its policy,' said Hikmahanto.
The government executed eight death row inmates early on Wednesday on Nusakambangan prison island near Cilacap in Central Java.
The eight were Indonesian Zainal Abidin, Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, Brazilian Rodrigo Gularte, Nigerians Sylvester Obiekwe Nwolise, Raheem Agbaje Salami and Okwudili Oyatanze and Ghanaian Martin Anderson.
Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso of the Philippines was spared after a woman who allegedly recruited her to act as a drug courier gave herself up to police in the Philippines on Tuesday. (ebf)(+++)
