Indonesia keeps death penalty despite execution hiatus

Indonesia saw its last executions in 2016 of four drug trafficking convicts. However, the country's new Criminal Code (KUHP) marks a shift in the legal framework by classifying it as a “special punishment” to be imposed only as a last resort.

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