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Nusakambangan back to normal after executions
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All set: An Indonesian Navy vessel patrols the waters off Nusakambangan Island in Cilacap, Central Java, on Thursday. .
(thejakartapost.com/Agus Maryono)
T
he situation on the Nusakambangan prison island has returned to normal after the executions of four drug convicts in the early hours of Friday, suggesting that the executions of the remaining drug convicts may not be imminent.
“It’s back to normal now. We can fish again in the vicinity of Nusakambangan. Unlike yesterday, there were just too many police personnel watching us. We were not allowed to get too close to Nusakambangan,” one local fishermen said.
Based on The Jakarta Post’s observations, the Wijaya Pura port appeared empty on Friday morning. The heavily armed mobile brigade assigned to secure the area were nowhere to be seen and fishing boats could be seen passing through Nusakambangan waters.
Molyanto, an official from the Legal and Human Rights Ministry, told the Post that it was unlikely that a next wave of executions would be carried out in the near future. “There is no notification yet of another round of executions for the convicts whose executions were canceled, “ he said.
Four death row convicts—Freddy Budiman, an Indonesian; Seck Osmani, a Senegali; Humprey Eijeke and Michael Titus, both Nigerian—were shot dead by the firing squad on Friday at 12:46 a.m in Nusakambangan prison. The remaining 10 inmates who had been scheduled to also meet the firing squad on the same day, including Pakistani Zulfiqar Ali, were reprieved at the eleventh hour. (ary)
