Fachrul Sidiq, Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office (AGO) has said it may execute more drug convicts this year, explaining that it largely depended on funding.

Jakarta – The Human Rights Working Group (HRWG) expressed appreciation of Indonesia's stance which, along with 31 other countries, has abstained from using the death penalty in response to the UN r

Jakarta – National Narcotics Agency (BNN) chief Comr. Gen. Budi Waseso threatened to take severe actions against individuals involved in drug trafficking.

Venidora Oliveira – First Lady Isabel Ferreira said that an independent justice system in Timor-Leste would contribute to the country's peace and stability and therefore the state should guarantee

Moses Ompusunggu, Jakarta – In what could be seen as a promotional line, a man claiming to be "Ki Barong" – Ki is Javanese and usually refers to a man possessing power – wrote on his Facebook wall

Jakarta – A team of lawmakers tasked with deliberating a bill has agreed to retain an article within the Criminal Code (KUHP) bill, making it illegal for people to declare that they "possess the ab

Hal Tilemann – The significant progress made by the national legislature (DPR) in its discussion of the draft revised criminal code (RUU KUHP) is cause for cautious optimism about crimi

Indonesia's president Joko Widodo has indicated his country wants to move towards abolishing the death penalty.

Venidora Oliveira – The Judicial Reform Commission has been criticized for working too slowly and failing to make any significant progress.

Jewel Topsfield and Karuni Rompies, Jakarta – The High Court has upheld a decision to throw out a $US125 million lawsuit against a prestigious Jakarta international school by a mother who claims he

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Despite numerous achievements accomplished by President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and Vice President Jusuf Kalla during their two years in office, improvement of the ju

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Human rights watchdog Imparsial has urged President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to gather a team to assess the validity of his argument that the death penalty can create

Moses Ompusunggu, Jakarta – The Law and Human Rights Ministry is set to increase the capacity of penitentiaries nationwide by 5,000 by the end of the year in an effort to help ease overcrowding in

Margareth S. Aritonang – Family members and lawyers of convicts recall the confusion ahead of the executions in July amid current uncertainty and a lack of reliable information.

Jakarta – Indonesia, one of only 25 countries in the world that still impose capital punishment, has seen 35 people sentenced to death by the courts since the start of the year, according to the Co

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The Law and Human Rights Ministry is focusing its attention on making it easier for drug convicts to get remission after President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo recently rejected a p

Jakarta – A legal think tank, the Institute for Criminal Justice Reform (ICJR), has called on the government to include a moratorium on the death penalty in its reform packages aimed at rejuvenatin

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Wiranto has promised that the law reform package the government will soon introduce will accommodate th

Jewel Topsfield and Amilia Rosa, Jakarta – A condemned Pakistani man has spoken of his suffering as his life remains in limbo more than two months after he was mysteriously spared from an Indonesia

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Since its establishment in 2005, the Judicial Commission has had most of its recommendations ignored by the Supreme Court, in what could be seen as an attempt by the latter t

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – The government is set to introduce legal reform packages that are expected to improve law enforcement and the justice system, says Coordinating Political, Legal, a

Hans Nicholas Jong and Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – Which is worse: traveling to Indonesia without proper travel documents or funding terrorism?

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – While constantly under fire for poor and unfair decisions, judges at lower courts are also shouldering the heaviest task in upholding justice, since they are the ones who fir

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – A study by the University of Indonesia (UI) shows that the country has been harshly classifying harmless activities as crimes since the downfall of Soeharto.

Oliver Holmes – She has become a cause celebre in both the country of her detention and that of her birth.

Jakarta – The Indonesian Migrant Workers Network (JBMI) has called into a question President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's statement that Indonesia would proceed with its plan to execute Philippine death

Jewel Topsfield and Karuni Rompies, Jakarta – An investigation into the alleged sex abuse of children at a prestigious Jakarta international school warned some of the suspects claimed to have been

Jewel Topsfield – Indonesian president Joko Widodo caused a storm of controversy on Monday when he appeared to indicate the Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte had given Indonesia the green light

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Indonesia should initiate a new legal process for Filipino death-row inmate Mary Jane Veloso after the Philippines declared her a victim of human trafficking, the

Indonesia's anti-drugs chief has supported implementing a bloody crackdown on traffickers like the war on crime in the Philippines that has left almost 3,000 dead.

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – National Narcotics Agency (BNN) head Comr. Gen.

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – The National Narcotics Agency (BNN) plans to procure weapons and intelligence tools to eradicate illicit drug trafficking in Indonesia, an official has said.

Jewel Topsfield and Karuni Rompies – An Australian expert who testified that Indonesian woman Wayan Mirna Salihin was unlikely to have died from cyanide poisoning after drinking a Vietnamese iced c

Jakarta – Masinton Pasaribu, a member of the House of Representatives' Commission III on legal affairs, has backed the National Anti-Narcotics Agency, or BNN, in its fight against drug abuse among

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Lawmakers expressed dissatisfaction toward most candidates for supreme court justices and ad hoc judge for the corruption court that have recently undergone fit-an

Jakarta – Since President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo declared a "drug state of emergency" and all-out war on illicit substances last year, little has been done on the front line, except for the controver

Haeril Halim and Margareth S.

Jakarta – A police investigative team is interested in speaking with Liberty Sitinjak, the former head of Batu prison on Nusakambangan Island in Cilacap, Central Java, in connection with a testimon

Margareth S.

Jakarta – Given that corruption is still perceived as an ongoing threat to the country, the government's controversial plan to relax the remission requirements for extraordinary crime convicts has

Jakarta – Transactions worth trillions of rupiah have been traced back to a drug syndicate led by an imprisoned convict, an official said on Friday (19/08).

Jakarta – Legal rights activists filed a report against Attorney General H.M.

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely dismayed by President Joko Widodo's decision to continue the execution of death row inmates.

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Coordinating Political, Legal, and Security Affairs Minister Wiranto has stressed that the government would not consider abolishing the death penalty, and therefor

Margareth S.

Corruption, drugs, extortion and bullying at penitentiaries are an open secret, and the chronic ills persist even as governments come and go.

Jakarta – House of Representatives deputy speaker Fadli Zon said on Monday that the government must explain the reasons behind its decision to execute only four of 14 death-row inmates scheduled fo

Jakarta – Following the execution of four drug convicts on early Friday, Muslim scholars and the leaders of the country's major Muslim organizations are divided over whether capital punishment is s

Jakarta – The execution spree in Indonesia has moved respected Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan to urge the government to end the death penalty for drug offenders as it does not reflect traditional or

Margareth S.