FOREIGN embassy officials arrived on Nusakambangan island on Saturday (April 25), the maximum security prison where the execution of 10 drug convicts is expected to take place. Indonesia had asked foreign embassies to send representatives to the prison island, diplomats said on Friday (April 24), although an official 72-hour notice of execution has not yet been given. Embassy officials received text messages from the government to send representatives. It was not clear why they were […]
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Indonesian protesters collect coins to return Australian tsunami aid
Hundreds of people gathered in Jakarta on the streets of Jakarta on Sunday (February 22) to join a coin collection drive in protest to Prime MinisterTony Abbott’s comment linking clemency please for two Australians on death row to the country’s 2004 tsunami relief aid. Earlier in the week, Abbott said Australia would feel “grievously let down” if the executions proceeded despite the roughly A$1 billion (784 million USD) in assistance it gave after the disaster, […]





