REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The delay in Mary Jane's execution could create greater pressure for Indonesia, Chairman of Indonesia's House of Representatives (DPR) Commission I Mahfudz Siddiq stated.
"My only criticism is to not implement law enforcement dramatically, but we are not ready to face the audience's reaction," Siddiq noted here on Wednesday (29/4).
The pressure from foreign countries will test the Indonesian government's consistency in enforcing the law, Siddiq pointed out.
"We can fix the legal systems and law enforcement mechanisms," he stated.
Siddiq said that Indonesia should effectively communicate with foreign countries regarding the implementation of death penalty.
"Communication must be maintained. This is about risk management that must be managed properly," he emphasized.
Earlier, eight of the nine drug convicts on death row were executed simultaneously on Wednesday, at 0:25 a.m. local time, on the island of Nusakambangang, off southern Central Java.
The eight drug convicts were Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran from Australia; Zainal Abidin from Indonesia; Rodrigo Gularte from Brazil; Silvester Obiekwe Nwaolise alias Mustofa, Okwudili Oyatanze, and Raheem Agbaje Salami from Nigeria; and Martin Anderson alias Belo from Ghana.
However, the execution of Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso from the Philippines was postponed.
According to information obtained from Nusakambangan, Mary Jane will be sent back to Yogyakarta.
Meanwhile, French citizen Serge Areski Atlaoui has evaded the second round of executions as a judicial review of his case is still ongoing at the State Administrative Court (PTUN).
Spokesman for the Attorney General's Office (AGO) Tony Tribagus Spontana emphasized here on Monday that the delay in Atlaoui's execution was not due to pressure from the French Government.
"It is not because of pressure from the French president," he affirmed.
Challenging his death sentence, the French national filed a review petition just before the April 23 deadline.
"He registered the review petition in the last minute, just before the deadline ended at 4 p.m. local time, on Thursday, April 23," Spontana pointed out.
As the AGO respects the legal process, it has decided to exclude Atlaoui from the list of convicts to be executed, he added.
If the PTUN rejects his appeal, he will be executed as planned, the spokesman observed.
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