JP\/4\/Bali<\/p>\n
Bali lawmakers call for rapid execution of militants<\/p>\n
The Jakarta Post
\nDenpasar<\/p>\n
The Bali provincial legislative council has sent a letter to
\nPresident Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to push for an immediate
\nexecution of three death row inmates involved in the 2002 Bali
\nterror attacks.<\/p>\n
Council deputy speaker I Gusti Ketut Adhi Putra said on
\nSaturday that the President was expected to instruct the Attorney
\nGeneral's Office to quickly execute Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, Imam
\nSamudra and Ali Ghufron alias Mukhlas, the three Islamic
\nmilitants who were sentenced to death by firing squad in August
\n2003 for their roles in the nightclub bombings the year before
\nthat killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists.<\/p>\n
He was quoted by Antara as saying that there had been
\nincreasing calls from several non-governmental organizations
\n(NGOs) and leading public figures for the law enforcement
\nagencies to immediately execute the three terrorists.<\/p>\n
\"They (NGOs and public figures) recently came to the
\nsecretariat of the Bali legislative council to demand that
\nAmrozi, Samudra and Ghufron be executed immediately,\" said Adhi
\nPutra, who recently visited the three on the prison island of
\nNusakambangan in Central Java.<\/p>\n
The increased urgency for the execution follows the second
\nterror bomb attacks on Bali in less than three years, the
\ncountry's most popular resort island, on Oct. 1, which killed 23
\nincluding three suicide bombers.<\/p>\n
Amid rising public pressure, several law enforcement personnel
\nand legislators from Bali recently made the visit to
\nNusakambangan to ask the three whether they intended to request
\npresidential pardons.<\/p>\n
They, however, said they would not ask for a pardon and they
\nrefused to sign the papers necessary. According to one
\nprosecutor who visited them, the three refused to seek a pardon,
\nwhile asserting that pardons should only be \"sought from Allah
\nnot from an earthly institution.\" They also said that the bomb
\nattacks were carried out to avenge the deaths of Muslims in
\nIsrael and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n
Adhi Putra said that the team of prosecutors, lawmakers and
\njudges were planning to meet with the families of the three
\nconvicted terrorists to ask whether they would seek pardons on
\ntheir behalf.<\/p>\n
Indonesian law states that death row inmates cannot be
\nexecuted until all legal avenues have been exhausted.<\/p>",
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