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Let us give our thoughts about this meeting between German Chancellor, Angela Merkel and Indonesian President Joko Widodo.

  

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and the President of Indonesia Joko Widodo, left, address the media during a joint news conference as part of a meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Monday, April 18, 2016. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

INTERNET SOURCE: https://www.yahoo.com/news/indonesian-president-defends-death-penalty-drug-crimes-153110001.html

Indonesian president defends death penalty for drug crimes

April 18, 2016

  

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and the President of Indonesia Joko Widodo, left, address the media during a joint news conference as part of a meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Monday, April 18, 2016. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

BERLIN (AP) — Indonesia's president is defending his country's use of the death penalty for drug offenses, arguing that drug abuse constitutes an emergency.

Indonesia has extremely strict drug laws and more than 130 people on death row, mostly for drug crimes. Authorities recently said Indonesia is preparing to execute more foreigners convicted of drug offenses. Executions last year caused an international outcry.

President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo said Monday that "Indonesia currently has an emergency, above all in drug abuse." He said 30-50 people a day die in Indonesia because of drugs.

Jokowi said through an interpreter: "Implementation of the death penalty is carried out very cautiously."

He spoke after meeting German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who underlined Germany's opposition to capital punishment and its wish for Indonesia "not to implement it if possible."

  

A member of the security wing of Nahdlatul Ulama, an Islamic organisation, carries a placard that says “drug offenders = death,” during a small rally outside the ferry port to the prison island of Nusakambangan, where a group of drug offenders are due to be executed, in Cilacap, Central Java, on March 12.

Darren Whiteside/Reuters

[PHOTO SOURCE: http://blogs.wsj.com/indonesiarealtime/2015/04/07/widodo-earns-indonesian-approval-for-death-penalty-stance/]

Hundreds of students and other protesters carried signs that read slogans including 'Go to hell Abbott with your druggies' and 'Abbott love druggies, we hate druggies!' during the demonstration in Indonesia's capital

http://victimsfamiliesforthedeathpenalty.blogspot.com.au/2015/04/indonesian-activists-protests-against.html

OUR THOUGHTS:

            Joko Widodo was one of the awardees of the Rayner Goddard Act of Courage Award, he defended the use of the death penalty. We, the comrades of Unit 1012, advise the Head of States to learn from Widodo on how he defended the use of capital punishment.

            We feel that people like Angela Merkel needs to go back home and take care of her own criminals in her backyard and the migrant crisis before lecturing others. 

  

One campaigner held up a sign which read: 'We Love Indonesia. Save Indonesia Generation. Go to Hell Criminal Drugs!'

[PHOTO SOURCE: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2982178/Execute-Indonesian-mob-gathers-Death-Island-calls-Bali-Nine-duo-shot-dead-immediately.html]