"Following the execution, Brazil recalled its ambassador in Indonesia for consultations, and so did the Netherlands. The Indonesian government need not overreact to the step," Professor Hikmahanto Juwana of University of Indonesia (UI) said in a written statement.
The step should not discourage the Indonesian government from executing the next death row convicts, he said.
He said the step should be interpreted as the friendly countries dissatisfaction with the execution of death row convicts.
After all, the countries knew well that they would unlikely intervene in Indonesias execution policy, he said.
The step was a response to public demand in the two countries, he said.
He believed that the recall of Brazilian and Dutch ambassadors would not last longer since many countries need Indonesia. In the economic field, for instance, Brazil has greater interest in Indonesia.
"Indonesia will not be isolated because of the execution of death row convicts," he said.
Five drug convicts were executed in Nusakambangan island off southern Central Java, earlier on Sunday at 00.40 local time, Cilacap police chief Adj. Sr.Comr. Ulung Sampurna Jaya said.
He said four of five bodies of the drug convicts were sent out of the notorious island at around 3.55 am local time on Sunday.
The four bodies were those of Dutch Ang Kim Soei (62), Brazilian Marco Archer Cardoso Mareira (53), Malawian Daniel Enemua (38), and Indonesian woman Rani Andriani alias Melisa Aprilia (38).
Meanwhile, another drug convict, Tran Thi Bich Hanh (37), a Vietnamese, was executed in Boyolali,Central Java, almost at the same time.
(Reporting by Rangga Pandu Asmara Jingga/Uu.S012)
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