Jakarta - Indonesia has executed a man sentenced to death seven years ago for murdering four people despite a call from international human rights groups to halt the execution, officials said Friday.
Rio Alex Bulo, 30, was executed by firing squad overnight in an open field in the Central Java district of Banyumas, said Sutrisno, an official at the provincial prosecutors office.
Rio's body was immediately brought to Purwokerto's general hospital for an autopsy after his midnight execution before being handed over to his family for burial, said Sutrisno, who like many Indonesians uses only one name.
Rio was sentenced to death by the Purwokerto district court in May 2001 for murdering a lawyer and three drivers from 1997 to 2001. While serving his sentence on Nusakambangan Island, off the southern coast of Central Java, he also killed a fellow inmate.
Former president Megawati Sukarnoputri turned down Rio's request for clemency in 2004, and the Indonesian Supreme Court turned down his final appeal for a case review in April.
Rio was the latest death row inmate to be executed in Indonesia in recent months. In late June, two Nigerian nationals were put to death for drug trafficking, followed by the executions last month of a shaman killer and three other murderers - including a mother and son.
Domestic and international human rights groups, including Amnesty International, have called on Indonesia to halt the executions and abolish the death penalty, in line with international norms.
Indonesian prosecutors said nearly 60 people are on death row in Indonesia, including three Australians convicted in the failed "Bali Nine" plot to smuggle more than 8 kilograms of heroin to Australia in 2005 as well as three Muslim militants sentenced to death for their roles in the 2002 Bali bombings that killed more than 200 people, mostly foreign tourists.
Nearly half of those on death row are foreigners.
A senior official at the Indonesian national police drugs unit announced last week that it planned to execute 39 Indonesian and foreign drug traffickers by the end of next year.
Executions in Indonesia are by firing squad, usually carried out at night in isolated and undisclosed locations. The prisoner is notified of his execution date at least 72 hours beforehand.
Source: TopNews Law
Rio Alex Bulo, 30, was executed by firing squad overnight in an open field in the Central Java district of Banyumas, said Sutrisno, an official at the provincial prosecutors office.
Rio's body was immediately brought to Purwokerto's general hospital for an autopsy after his midnight execution before being handed over to his family for burial, said Sutrisno, who like many Indonesians uses only one name.
Rio was sentenced to death by the Purwokerto district court in May 2001 for murdering a lawyer and three drivers from 1997 to 2001. While serving his sentence on Nusakambangan Island, off the southern coast of Central Java, he also killed a fellow inmate.
Former president Megawati Sukarnoputri turned down Rio's request for clemency in 2004, and the Indonesian Supreme Court turned down his final appeal for a case review in April.
Rio was the latest death row inmate to be executed in Indonesia in recent months. In late June, two Nigerian nationals were put to death for drug trafficking, followed by the executions last month of a shaman killer and three other murderers - including a mother and son.
Domestic and international human rights groups, including Amnesty International, have called on Indonesia to halt the executions and abolish the death penalty, in line with international norms.
Indonesian prosecutors said nearly 60 people are on death row in Indonesia, including three Australians convicted in the failed "Bali Nine" plot to smuggle more than 8 kilograms of heroin to Australia in 2005 as well as three Muslim militants sentenced to death for their roles in the 2002 Bali bombings that killed more than 200 people, mostly foreign tourists.
Nearly half of those on death row are foreigners.
A senior official at the Indonesian national police drugs unit announced last week that it planned to execute 39 Indonesian and foreign drug traffickers by the end of next year.
Executions in Indonesia are by firing squad, usually carried out at night in isolated and undisclosed locations. The prisoner is notified of his execution date at least 72 hours beforehand.
Source: TopNews Law
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