Indonesia affirms death penalty as a state`s sovereignity

The Indonesian government has affirmed that having the death penalty on its statute is part of the sovereignty of a state, according to a press statement issued by the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and received by ANTARA here on Friday.
A joint statement regarding the death penalty was issued by the Ambassador of Indonesia to Austria, Slovenia, and the UN agencies in Vienna, Rachmat Budiman, after the ratification of the final document of the Special Session of the UN General Assembly on the Narcotics and Drug issues, in New York, USA.
The ambassador asserted that the death penalty and the mode of its execution is part of the implementation of criminal justice system decided by competent authorities of each country.