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Greater Jakarta: Hong Kongers could face death penalty
The West Jakarta Prosecutorâs Office has said it will indict two Hong Kong men for allegedly attempting to smuggle 49 kilograms of methamphetamine into the country and demand that they be handed the death penalty at a court hearing scheduled for Thursday
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he West Jakarta Prosecutor's Office has said it will indict two Hong Kong men for allegedly attempting to smuggle 49 kilograms of methamphetamine into the country and demand that they be handed the death penalty at a court hearing scheduled for Thursday.
The office's head, Reda Mantovai, said on Tuesday that the two suspects, Kwok Fu Ho and Ko Chi Yuen alias Acuan, had violated Article 114 of the Narcotics Law. 'We will read out our indictment for the two suspects on Thursday,' he said as quoted by tribunnews.com.
The two suspects were arrested by the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) in a raid on an apartment in West Jakarta recently. The two said they just fulfilled an order to pick up the methamphetamine from a person identified as Andrew, who is still at large.
The government has been imposing strict penalties on drug traffickers in what it calls 'an emergency call against drugs traffickers'.
In April, the government executed two Australian drug ringleaders, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, despite intense lobbying efforts by the Australian government and international human rights organizations to save their lives.
The government plans to continue imposing the death sentence on drug traffickers even though local and international organizations have demanded that the government amend the law.
President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo said recently that he would not give clemency to anyone found trafficking drugs within the archipelago.
