Semarang, C Java (Antara Babel) - The Attorney General's Office will not unveil the site to execute five death-row drug convicts for security reasons, Attorney General HM.Prasetyo said.
"To avoid security disturbance, the location will be kept secret," he said here on Sunday.
Prasetyo said before they were executed the Attorney General's Office would take several things into consideration, including discussing a firing squad with the national police, giving rights to the death-row convicts, and preparing the location for the execution.
The five death-row convicts who will face the firing squad had met criteria for execution, he said.
He said there had been pros and cons over the death sentence.
"The positive law of our country still recognizes death sentence," he said.
Furthermore, the Attorney General's Office only carried out the order to execute the death-row convicts, he said.
The execution of the death-row convicts is only waiting for a letter from the Attorney General's Office.
The execution of death-row drug convicts is part of campaign to make Indonesia free of drugs in 2015.
Junior Attorney General for General Crimes Basyuni Masyarif said recently two of the convicts had been placed in penitentiaries in Banten, two other convicts are now in Riau and one is in Jakarta. These include prisoners convicted of narcotic drug crimes.
In 2013, the AGO executed several convicts, including Suryadi hailing from Palembang, who had been sentenced to death for killing members of a family in the Pupuk Sriwijaya compound in 1991, as well as Jurit and Ibrahim, who were found guilty of premeditated murder in Sekayu, Musi Banyuasin district, in South Sumatra in 2003.
Other convicts executed during the year were Mohammad Abdul Hafeez from Pakistan, in connection with a narcotics case, and Adami Wilson, alias Adam alias Abu from Malawi, also involving a drug conviction.
According to AGO data, 118 convicts have been executed.
