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Prosecutors from the Attorney General Office’s (AGO) recently demanded that businessman and recidivist Heru Hidayat be sentenced to death for his involvement in one of Indonesia's largest graft cases, in a rare move against white-collar crime.
The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has called on President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to grant clemency for death row convict Merri Utami, whose clemency plea has yet to be responded by the President after more than five years.
Rights groups have called on the government to remove the death penalty from the country’s legal system, given the lack of sufficient evidence that it would deter other people from committing crimes and the high risk of wrongful conviction.
Taiwan has released new procedures for carrying out capital punishment -- including preventing the condemned from seeing their executioner -- but rights activists said Thursday the move merely whitewashes a barbaric practice.
The staggering increase in capital punishment verdicts last year has fueled criticism of Indonesia’s justice system, with activists accusing judges of ignoring basic human rights and underlining the ineffectiveness of the death penalty in reducing crime.
