REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, PAMEKASAN -- A lawmaker has called for immediate execution of drug convicts on death row to help combat the spread of illicit drug trafficking.

"We ask the Indonesian president to implement the decision on the execution of drug convicts on death row soon to stop drug trafficking in this country," MH Said Abdullah of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP) faction at the House of Representatives (DPR) said here on Sunday.

Abdullah was responding to pressure from ulemas in Madura island who are grouped in the forum of ulemas from Islamic boarding schools in Madura island.

He believed that jailed drug dealers have masterminded part of illicit drug trafficking in the country from behind bars.