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Chief justice says Corby suffers from depression

One of the reasons why President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has given a clemency to Australian Schapelle Leigh Corby is ...

News focus - Clemency for drug offender draws harsh criticism

The decision of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to cut the sentence of Australian marijuana smuggler Schapelle ...

Saudi king extends time for four Indonesian convicts facing death penalty

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has provided extra time for the four Indonesian convicts facing execution in the ...

Some 49 convicts in corruption-related cases not yet jailed, NGO

Some 49 convicts involved in various corruption cases in Indonesia have not had their sentences carried out, a ...

AGO to recount drug offenders on death row

The Attorney General`s Office (AGO) is to do a recount of prisoners sentenced to death for drug-related offenses in ...

Thousands of convicts to get Christmas remissions

A total of 5,200 prisoners in Indonesia will get remissions on the occasion of Christmas Day. "And 162 of them ...

House asks law minister to review remission regulation

Party factions in the House of Representatives` Commission III have asked the government to review or even cancel a ...

IT development facilitates terrorists` regeneration: Sociologist

Development of Information Technology (IT) is facilitating the regeneration of terrorists and thus compounding the ...

Saudi woman beheaded for `sorcery`

A Saudi woman was beheaded Monday after being convicted of practising sorcery, which is banned in the ...

Saudi beheaded for murder of policeman

A man convicted of murdering a policeman during a drug trafficking arrest was beheaded on Friday, the interior ...

Govt considering proposal to dissolve regional corruption courts

The Law and Human Rights Ministry is considering civil society calls for the dissolution of regional corruption courts ...

Govt begins denying sentence remissions to convicted corrupters

The government has begun tightening the requirements for convicted corrupters to obtain jail term remissions, Law and ...

Swedish poet Tomas Transtroemer wins Nobel Literature Prize

Swedish poet Tomas Transtroemer, whose simple but mystical imagery addresses themes of nature, history and death, won ...

Some 44,652 convicts to get remission

As many as 44,652 people of the total of 133,379 convicts across Indonesia are expected to get remission on the ...

Fourteen provinces identified as terrorism propagation pockets

The National Counter-Terrorism Agency (BNPT) said 14 of Indonesia`s provinces have been identified as pockets of ...