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After executing over a dozen drug convicts amid international outrage since January, the Attorney General'€™s Office (AGO) claims that it has yet to schedule a third round of executions, following the most recent one in April.

Attorney General M. Prasetyo said on Friday that the AGO had yet to discuss the next executions, specifically those of Frenchman Serge Atlaoui and Mary Jane Veloso of the Philippines.

Your comments:

Claiming that '€œ['€¦] being firm about the executions could work positively for Indonesia, especially during the creation of international treaties, as it would show that the state held true to its word'€ is quite possibly the worst analysis I have read regarding Indonesia'€™s international standing on the death penalty.  

France has already made it clear that trouble is on the way if the executions go ahead. What positive diplomacy is RI expecting there?  

The Frenchman'€™s case needs to be assessed again given that he was arrested falsely as a chemist for, it would seem, the simple purpose of fast tracking his state-sanctioned death.  

While elements of corruption in law enforcement and the judiciary remain functional, nonsense claims like this will no doubt surface and to not investigate them is to show much more weakness before the international community than stopping these executions ever would.

Let'€™s face it Indonesia, Atlaoui and Veloso are almost certainly innocent of the crimes. Doesn'€™t this strong possibility cause anything to stir that might resemble a moral compass inside the authorities and the people here?  

Are you all really this spiritually bent? Is this the reason for overcompensating with religions and '€œprinciples'€?  If so, do you think that the global community cannot see this weakness already?

L Millar