Death Penalty

Name     : Anis Srisurti

Nim        : 13221046
Class      : 2B
Course   : Argumentative Writing ( pro statement)

·         Death penalty is a legal process whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime. The judicial decree that someone be punished in this manner is a death sentence, while the actual enforcement is an execution.

Source: en.m.wikipedia,org/wiki/Capital_punishment

·         The issue was revived when Indonesia’s president Joko Widodo issued a statement on 10^th of December 2014 that Indonesia’s law would not give any mercy towards drug dealers.

Source: m.kompasiana.com/post/read/728109/1/bali-nine-indonesia-law-on-death-penalty-and-diplomatic-turbulence.html

·         Indonesia’s President Joko Widodoays he is open to abolishing the death penalty, but not for “a long time” and only if the Indonesian people want it.

·         Mr. Joko Widodo said, “The country was facing a drugs ‘emergency’, there were 4,5million people in drug rehabilitation programs and at least 1,5 million people who can’t be cured.

Statutory Provisions

The following is a list of the criminal offenses that carry the death penalty in Indonesia:

• Attempt with intent to deprive the President or Vice-President of his or her life or liberty or to render him or her unfit to govern (Indonesian Criminal Code (Kitab UU Hukum Pidana – KUHP) Art. 104)
• Aiding or protecting Indonesia’s enemies at war (KUHP Art. 123 & 124)
• Fraud in delivery of military materials in time of war (KUHP Art. 127)
• Killing the head of state of a friendly state (KUHP Art. 140)
• Premeditated murder (KUHP Art. 340)
• Robbery or theft resulting in grave injury or death (KUHP Art. 365)
• Piracy resulting in death (KUHP Art. 444)
• Instigating or inciting rebellion or riot against a state defense company during times of war (KUHP)
• Extortion with violence (KUHP)
• Possession and misuse of firearm and/or other explosive (Emergency Law No. 12/1951)
• Criminal acts during air flights or against aviation infrastructure (Law No. 4/1976)
• Production, transit, import and possession of psychotropic drugs (Law No. 5/1997 on Psychotropic Drugs)
• Production, transit, import and possession of narcotics (Law No. 22/1997 on Narcotics)
• Corruption under “certain circumstances,” including repeat offenders and corruption committed during times of national emergency/disaster (Law No. 31/1999 on Corruption)
• Gross violations of human rights, including genocide and crimes against humanity (Law No. 26/2000 on Human Rights Courts)
• Acts of terrorism (Law No. 15/2003 on Combating Criminal Acts of Terrorism)