Indonesian Anti-Drug Czar Plans to Imitate Brutal Philippine Shoot-to-Kill Policy
Source: Foreign Policy
Indonesian Anti-Drug Czar Plans to Imitate Brutal Philippine Shoot-to-Kill Policy
Siobhán O'Grady
September 7, 2016
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte relishes in his nickname, “The Punisher,” because he earned it for implementing his tough-on-drug-crime policies while he served as mayor of the southern island city of Davao.
Now that he’s the head of state, he’s made sure he’ll hold onto the nickname permanently, launching a police shoot-to-kill mission for anyone even suspected of drug peddling. The brutal war on drugs has earned him criticism from the United Nations, U.S. President Barack Obama, and a plethora of human rights organizations who claim it breaches basic human rights.
But one place it’s earned him fans? Indonesia, where the government has also fielded pushback from the U.N. and other world powers for executing foreigners found guilty of selling drugs. Now Budi Waseso, the top anti-narcotics chief in the country, says he wants to imitate Duterte’s policy to rid Indonesia of drug dealers whose lives he has called “meaningless.”
Waseso said at a Wednesday press conference in Jakarta that he believes Indonesia will launch a policy equally as aggressive as the one now in place in the Philippines. Later, however, a spokesman for the national narcotics agency insisted that Indonesian “punishments have to be in accordance with our law and with national and international standards.”
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