Indonesia keeps death penalty despite execution hiatus
Indonesia continues to maintain a hiatus on executions despite keeping the death penalty legal under its new Criminal Code. The law now classifies capital punishment as a 'special punishment' to be used only as a last resort.
Why it matters
This reflects a significant shift in Indonesian legal philosophy regarding human rights and criminal justice reform.
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The country saw its last executions in 2016 of four drug trafficking convicts. While Indonesia has maintained a hiatus on new executions, the death penalty remains legal, although the new KUHP, which took effect in January, marks a shift in the legal framework by classifying it as a "special punishment" to be imposed only as a last resort.
ndonesia has gone a decade without carrying out the execution of a death row prisoner, but courts continue to hand down capital punishments even as the new Criminal Code (KUHP) no longer classifies the death penalty as a principal punishment.
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