Foreign drug traffickers coming to Indonesia need
to read this: President Joko Widodo, following the cue of Rodrigo
Duterte of the Philippines, has instructed law enforcement officers to
shoot them to deal with a narcotics emergency facing his country.
“Be firm, especially to foreign drug dealers who
enter the country and resist arrest. Shoot them because we indeed are in
a narcotics emergency position now,” Widodo said in a speech delivered
at an event held by one of Indonesia’s political parties late on Friday.
His remarks have drawn comparison to that of
Philippine’s President Rodrigo Duterte, who launched a brutal anti-drug
crackdown about a year ago that saw many alleged drug dealers killed.
The bloody campaign in the Phillipines has drawn condemnation from the international community, including the United Nations.
Indonesia also has tough laws against drugs. Widodo
has previously been criticized for ordering executions against
convicted drug traffickers who were given a death penalty by the court.
Rights activists and some governments have called on Indonesia to
abolish the death penalty.
Friday’s shooting order from Widodo came a week
after Indonesian police shot dead a Taiwanese man in a town near the
capital Jakarta.
The man, who was part of a group trying to smuggle
one tonne of crystal methamphetamine into the country, was killed for
resisting arrest, police have said.
After the incident, Indonesian National Police
chief Tito Karnavian was quoted by media saying he had ordered officers
not to hesitate shooting drug dealers who resist arrest.
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