"They keep lodging appeals," he told journalists after attending a meeting at the presidential office here for discussing the countrys fight against drug abuse.
Responding to the trend, he said, the Attorney Generals Office is coordinating with the Supreme Court to discuss ways to accelerate the processing of appeals by drug convicts on death row.
The Attorney Generals Office also wants the Supreme Court to issue a regulation that will specify the time frame for handling appeals although filing appeals is convicts right, he noted.
Meanwhile, Police Chief General Sutarman said his men were prepared to execute death row drug convicts but the final decision should come from the Attorney Generals Office.
Earlier, citing that the country has been in an emergency situation considering that some 40-50 Indonesians die of drug abuse every day, President Joko Widodo made it clear that he will not accept drug convicts requests for pardon.
Vice-President Jusuf Kalla also defended President Joko Widodos decision to reject the clemency petitions of narcotics convicts on death row and stated that it must not be called human rights violation.
"Narcotics convicts violated human rights by causing other peoples deaths," he had said while attending a workshop organized by the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) here recently.
(Reported by Muhammad Razi Rahman/Uu.INE/KR-BSR/A014)
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