Indonesia to execute at least two convicts, including foreigners this year: Attorney General

Indonesia will execute no less than two convicts, including outsiders, this year, the lawyer general said on Monday.

H.M. Prasetyo said the detainees would be executed by terminating squad soon, yet did not intricate upon the violations of which they were indicted.

"The usage of the executions will be completed after the (Eid al-Fitr) occasion period that has recently finished," Prasetyo told correspondents.

"There are more than two individuals, and there are outsiders. There are dissents yet we will in any case do the executions," he included.

Indonesia a year ago executed 14 individuals, generally outside medication traffickers, and has pledged to increase that number regardless of global judgment. Prasetyo already said no less than 16 detainees would be executed for the current year and more than twofold that number one year from now.

(Reporting by Jakarta agency, Writing by Kanupriya Kapoor; Editing by Eric Meijer)

Indonesia's Attorney General Muhammad Prasetyo speaks to journalists about the upcoming executions at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta, Indonesia April 28, 2015.

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