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Funeral supplies sent to Nusakambangan
Two trucks carrying funeral supplies entered one of the prisons on Nusakambangan Island in Cilacap, Central Java, Wednesday morning, suggesting that the third wave of executions under President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo is imminent.
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A truck carrying funeral supplies enters one of the prisons on Nusakambangan Island in Cilacap, Central Java, on Wednesday morning as the third wave of executions of drug under President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo draws closer. (JP/Agus Maryono)
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wo trucks carrying funeral supplies entered one of the prisons on Nusakambangan Island in Cilacap, Central Java, Wednesday morning, suggesting that the third wave of executions under President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo is imminent.
“We are carrying [these supplies] to Nusakambangan. It’s on police orders, “ one of the truck drivers told The Jakarta Post. The vehicles carried several tables for bathing dead bodies, tents and chairs.
Meanwhile, family members of several death-row convicts who will face the firing squad were seen entering the prison. A staffer from the Indian embassy, Juniarto, said he and Indian diplomats came to visit Gurdip Singh, an Indian drug convict who was sentenced to death in 2005.
The legal team of drug convict Freddy Budiman also visited the prison on Wednesday. “We’re going in to see Freddy. We don’t know his last wish before the execution yet,” one of Freddy’s lawyers said.
The Jokowi administration has vowed to get tough on drug convicts on the pretext that the country is facing a “drug emergency”. Human rights activists, home and abroad, have criticized Jokowi for the executions, saying not only that Indonesia’s criminal justice system has flaws that lead to miscarriages of justice, but that the harsh punishment has done little to curb drug smuggling. (ary)
