An uphill battle: A case example of government policy and activist dissent on the death penalty for drug-related offences in Indonesia

Criminality and Income Inequality in Indonesia

“…There were increases in cybercrime (Suryono et al 2021;Prabowo 2012), ethnoreligious violence (De Juan et al 2015;Diprose and Azca 2019), terrorism, organized crime, and drug-related crime (Kramer and Stoicescu 2021) in Indonesia, posing a great challenge to the country. A number of reforms to the criminal law have been proposed in an effort to facilitate crime and violence control.…”

Language and COVID-19: A discourse analysis of resistance to lockdown in Indonesia

“…People defined their destiny during the COVID-19 pandemic. Discourse occurs through optimizing language function to present people's ideas and thoughts [70][71][72][73]. Optimization of the use of the language in written and non-written discourses by the community in the pandemic period became an important language study area to be analyzed to dismantle community resistance to state policies that are not well informed in efforts to control mass mobility so that the spread of COVID-19 cases in the country would not be widespread.…”

“…Various forms of resistance appear in the form of slogans, pamphlets, banners, anecdotes, caricatures, and statuses in the social media [62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69]. The nuanced discourse of rejection comes with optimizing language function as a presenter of people's ideas and thoughts [70][71][72][73]. Public fear and panic are triggered by un standard, measurable state policies in controlling the covid-19 outbreak in various countries of the world [74][75][76].…”

Analysis of the Effectiveness of Drugs Interdiction Strategy in Indonesia: A Study on the National War on Drugs Policy

“…As such, 45 years after the declaration of the War on Drugs by US President Richard Nixon, President Joko Widodo followed suit by declaring "War on Drugs" on International Anti-Narcotics Day on 26 June 2016 (Handoyo & Atmosukarto, 2017). The "war" commences with the execution of 19 drug traffickers from varying international backgrounds by the President, despite international outrage (Kramer & Stoicescu, 2021). Additionally, President Joko Widodo directed the establishment of a national interdiction task force comprised of relevant national agencies to combat illicit substances entering and leaving Indonesia (National Narcotics Board, Statement by the Head of Delegation of the Republic of Indonesia at the 62nd Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs., 2019).…”