Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, University of Sydney, Australia, Level 6 Brennan MacCallum A18, Camperdown NSW 2006, Australia.
Centre for Criminology, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, St Cross Building St. Cross Rd, Oxford OX1 3UL, United Kingdom; Columbia School of Social Work, Columbia University, 1255 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10027, United States.
Int J Drug Policy. 2021 Jun;92:103265. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2021.103265. Epub 2021 May 5.
In 2014, newly-elected President Joko Widodo announced that Indonesia was facing a national 'emergency' due to high levels of drug use that necessitated harsh criminal justice responses, including the ultimate punishment of death. On April 29, 2015 Indonesia executed eight prisoners condemned to death for drug-related offences, including seven foreigners, eliciting widespread international criticism. This commentary explores the strategies employed and obstacles faced by national anti-death penalty advocates that opposed the 2015 executions, primarily focusing on their efforts between 2015 and 2017. We begin by highlighting existing political narratives that make the death penalty an attractive option for the Indonesian government, before discussing key approaches employed as part of anti-death penalty efforts. It is hoped that a better understanding of existing efforts to promote abolition and the challenges associated with these approaches will help inform a more systematic and evidence-based approach to policy, practice, and discourse on the death penalty for drug-related offences in Indonesia.
2014 年，新当选的总统佐科·维多多宣布，由于毒品使用水平高，印度尼西亚面临国家“紧急状态”，需要采取严厉的刑事司法应对措施，包括死刑的终极惩罚。2015 年 4 月 29 日，印度尼西亚处决了 8 名因毒品犯罪被判处死刑的囚犯，其中包括 7 名外国人，引发了广泛的国际批评。本评论探讨了反对 2015 年处决的国家死刑反对者所采用的策略和面临的障碍，主要关注他们在 2015 年至 2017 年期间的努力。我们首先强调了使死刑成为印度尼西亚政府一个有吸引力的选择的现有政治叙事，然后讨论了作为死刑反对努力的一部分采用的关键方法。希望更好地了解为促进废除死刑而进行的现有努力，以及这些方法所带来的挑战，将有助于为与与毒品相关的犯罪有关的死刑的政策、实践和话语提供更系统和基于证据的方法。
