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National scene: BNN chief calls for execution of drug kingpin
National Narcotics Agency (BNN) head Budi Waseso believes that the narcotics lord and death row convict Freddy Budiman is running his business from behind bars
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ational Narcotics Agency (BNN) head Budi Waseso believes that the narcotics lord and death row convict Freddy Budiman is running his business from behind bars.
Freddy was sentenced to death in 2013 for importing ecstasy after police officers raided a truck containing 1.4 million ecstasy pills in Cengkareng, West Jakarta.
'Freddy Budiman still runs his business from behind bars. We should implement [the execution] soon,' he said on Thursday as quoted by tribunnews.com.
Declaring a national war on drugs, the President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo administration executed two groups of death row convicts, a total of 14 people, in January and April last year. Most were drug traffickers.
Two of the convicts executed in April were Australian drug smugglers Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, a move that caused enough tension between Australia and Indonesia for the Australian government to temporarily recall its ambassador from Indonesia.
The government would like to see tougher measures introduced against offenders ' both addicts and traffickers ' including establishing special correctional facilities for narcotics-related offenses.
Budi, however, said that he will consider supporting clemency pleas for those with light sentences in a move to reduce the country's overcrowded penitentiaries. 'More than 62 percent of drug-related inmates are addicts,' he said.
