One more joins Tangerang death row for drugs
One more joins Tangerang death row for drugs
Multa Fidrus, Tangerang
The Tangerang District Court sent another drug dealer to death
row on Monday, putting at 26 number of those now awaiting
execution since January 2000 in the municipality.
None have been executed, pending appeals and other legal
moves.
The court found Adam Wilson, 31, a citizen apparently of both
Benin and Malawi, guilty of having a role in smuggling one
kilogram of heroin from Thailand into the country via his
Indonesian girlfriend in early 2002.
Presiding judge Maha Nikmah also ordered Wilson to pay a Rp
150 million (US$16,667) fine.
The verdict was equal to the demand sought by prosecutor
Hutagaol.
Wilson's lawyer Dedi Waluyo said they would appeal.
"The defendant has been proven guilty of all charges and there
are no mitigating factors that can reduce the sentence," Maha
Nikmah announced in court.
The judge explained that the defendant had ignored the
Indonesian government's antidrug campaign, endangered the
country's young generation, given false testimony and showed no
remorse during the trial.
The prosecutor charged the defendant with violating Law No.
22/1997 on Drugs, Article 55 of the Criminal Code on persuading
others to commit crimes and Law No. 9/1992 on Immigration.
Hutagaol said the defendant illegally entered the country in
1999 via Entekong, an immigration post in West Kalimantan where
it borders eastern Malaysia, without valid travel documents.
Two years later, he built a relationship with Edith Yunita
Sianturi. In February 2002, Wilson asked Sianturi to go to
Thailand and take along with her US$4,500 in cash to be submitted
to a man called Brother in Bangkok.
She first refused but then agreed after Wilson threatened to
break up with. Sianturi managed to do what she had been asked but
when she was about to fly back home a week later, Brother asked
her to also take a leather bag to be given to Wilson.
Upon her arrival at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, the
customs and excise officers found that the bag was full of
heroine.
Sianturi was sentenced to death in 2002, but the police
suspected that she had not acted alone and eventually arrested
Wilson as her cohort.
The police continued to track down the defendant and arrested
him after they staged a drug transaction trap in a house in
Bekasi last year.
"How can the court sentence me to death? There is no evidence
on me. It's not fair. There's no justice," Wilson said after the
verdict was read.