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View all search resultsLaw and Human Rights Minister Yasonna H. Laoly is aiming for the construction of a supermax prison on Nusakambangan Island in Central Java to be finished this year, even though the work has only progressed to 40 percent of completion so far.
The government is to retain the death penalty, but intends to seek a "middle way" to accommodate those critics who opposed capital punishment as a violation of human rights, Law and Human Rights Minister Yasonna Laoly said on Tuesday.
Law and Human Rights Minister Yasonna Laoly has defended the move to grant sentence reductions to a number of convicted terrorists, saying the decision was made after a thorough review that found the convicts had repented for their wrongdoings while serving time.
Law and Human Rights Minister Yasonna H. Laoly has said the government has no plan at this point to disband other mass organizations after it banned Islamic group Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) for being against Pancasila state ideology on July 19.
More than 50,000 inmates currently being held in prisons across the country simultaneously took part in khatam, or reciting the Quran from beginning to end, on Thursday, strengthening their faith while also breaking a record at the Indonesian Museum of Records (MURI).
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