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Enforcement 🇮🇩 Indonesia

Indonesia carries out its last executions, of four drug traffickers

Four men, three Nigerians and one Indonesian, were shot at Nusakambangan shortly after midnight; ten others due to be executed were reprieved. No executions have been carried out since, although courts continue to impose death sentences. By April 2026, 639 people were on death row, 441 of them for drug offences.[1][2]

Listed for context. No score change is recorded for Indonesia here.

References

  1. BBC — Indonesian and three Nigerians executed for drug crimes (29 July 2016)Four executed on 29 July 2016; Freddy Budiman and three Nigerians; ten others reprieved
  2. The Jakarta Post — Indonesia keeps death penalty despite execution hiatus (25 October 2026)Last executions 2016; 639 on death row in April 2026, 441 drug-related; death retained as special punishment with 10-year probation

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