Indonesia has signed a deal to send home an ailing French national on death row for drug offenses. Serge Atlaoui, 61, has spent almost 20 years in an Indonesian prison.
The Indonesian government has consistently rejected calls for Papua’s independence. The region is home to the Grasberg mine, one of the world’s largest gold and copper reserves, and its forests are a critical part of Indonesia’s climate commitments.
The Indonesian government will repatriate death row drug convict Serge Areski Atlaoui to his home country, France, on February 4, 2025, based on a practical
JAKARTA - Indonesia is likely to sign an agreement with France before the end of this month, over the repatriation of a Frenchman on death row on charges of drug offences, a senior minister said on Jan 21.
Serge Atlaoui, 61, said to be suffering from cancer, was arrested in 2005 and due to be executed in 2015, when he was granted a reprieve.
Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto is considering pardons for prisoners linked to armed organisations in the restive easternmost province of Papua, including separatists, providing they renounce violence and abandon secessionist agendas,
The release deal for Serge Atlaoui comes weeks after five Australians, serving sentences for drug smuggling, were allowed to return home last month. View on euronews
The transfer agreement was signed remotely by Indonesia’s senior minister of law Yusril Ihza Mahendra and France’s Minister of Justice Gérald Darmanin, and was witnessed by delegations from ...
The transfer agreement was signed remotely by Indonesia’s senior minister of law Yusril Ihza Mahendra and France’s Minister of Justice Gerald Darmanin, and was witnessed by delegations from ...
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A Frenchman on death row in Indonesia since 2007 for drug offences will be sent back to his home country, an Indonesian minister said Friday.
The government's plan to pardon prisoners linked to the Free Papua Movement (OPM) will not disrupt the security in Papua.