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View all search resultsCoordinating Law, Human Rights, Immigration and Correctional Services Minister Yusril Ihza Mahendra said the government aimed for the legislature to start deliberations for the bill before the end of this year.
The government has expressed openness to the possibility of granting amnesty to Papuan separatist groups, which authorities officially refer to as armed criminal groups (KKB), despite previously excluding them from a list of potential pardons.
Following the recent repatriation of foreign convicts, the government is mulling over legislating new rules on prisoner amnesty and transfers as part of a wider aim to ease congestion in the country's overcrowded prisons.
The recent repatriation of foreign convicts on death row for drug-related cases should serve as the first step for Indonesia to abolish capital punishment entirely, law and human rights activists have said.
The General Elections Commission (KPU) has called on political parties to withdraw ineligible ex-corruption convicts from a provisional list of candidates for next year’s legislative elections following a Supreme Court ruling that effectively makes a five-year waiting period mandatory for all former graft convicts.
In a bid to reduce overcrowding in prisons, a government-sanctioned but independent team tasked with renewing ongoing judicial reforms has recommended a mass clemency program for convicted drug users and a revision of the narcotics law, which is among the world’s strictest.
As the clock ticks toward what is certain to be a heated election year, the time is now for the government to take real action and create an environment in which corruption cannot thrive, and in doing so, finally set down this administration's antigraft legacy.
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