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    Death Row Inmate Cai Chang Pan Found Dead

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    Greater Metropolitan Regional Police Chief Inspector General (Irjen) Nana Sudjana ha confirmed that a Chinese drug convict, Cai Chang Pan – also known as Cai Ji Fan – who escaped from the Tangerang City Class 1 Correctional Institution, has been found dead.

    He hanged himself in a tire processing factory in the Jasinga Forest, Bogor on Saturday 17th October 2020 at 10:30am.

    “HE (CAI) STARTED TO FEEL PRESSURED BY THE PRESENCE OF OUR MEMBERS UNTIL HE COMMITTED SUICIDE AS A JOINT TEAM CONTINUED TO SEARCH FOR HIM,” SAID NANA.

    According to Nana, 291 people were deployed to pursue Cai. Furthermore, a Mobile Brigade Corps (SSK Brimob) team was deployed to participate in pursuing Cai.

    Cai was very familiar with the characteristics and geographic features of the Tenjo Forest area, which was the location of his first escape. Nana pointed out the search took approximately one month, encountering several obstacles when pursuing the death row inmate from China.

    Meanwhile, Head of Koleang Village Abdul Rohman said that the location where Cai Chang Pan was found was quite remote, about two kilometres from the main road. In fact, the road access to the former tire processing factory is right on the border of the Banten area.

    Shortly before Cai Chang Pan was found dead, Abdul headed straight to the location to confirm the arrival of the ambulance and police vehicle. Upon arriving at the location, Cai’s body was wrapped in a body bag and evacuated to an ambulance.

    Abdul said that at that time the police also brought in one of the security guards who was noted as a witness.

    “The security guard that was brought in is a resident. The factory is actually closed, but this security guard happened to have a chicken coop there,” said Abdul. “He’s not an active security guard there though. Hopefully, he isn’t involved in this matter.”

    Cai Chang Pan used many pseudonyms, including Antoni, Yongapan, and Cai Ji Fan. He escaped from the Class 1 Correctional Institution of Tangerang City and was racked to two sub-districts in West Bogor, namely Tenjo and Jasinga.

    Having a history attached to the area caused him to flee to the two sub-districts in West Bogor. Searches were carried out across each village to the deep forest in the mountains.

    From several accounts, Cai Chang Pan owned a number of plots of land and has a tire-burning business which is managed by his wife and assisted by a number of employees. However, the assets of the plot of land and the tire-burning warehouse in Jasinga were sold after Cai Chang Pan was imprisoned in 2015.

    https://indonesiaexpat.biz/news/deat...an-found-dead/
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    Drug trafficking suspect nabbed at Damai condo

    The Borneo Post

    KOTA KINABALU: A jobless local man may face the death penalty after he was arrested with numerous drugs worth about RM11,971.80, here on Thursday.

    Kota Kinabalu police chief ACP Habibi Majinji said the 27-year-old suspect was arrested by narcotics police at a condominium in Damai, Luyang around 5.30 pm on Feb 25.

    Numerous drugs were found inside the suspect’s condominium, namely 87.89 grams of ketamin, 6.38 grams of ecstasy and 781.59 grams of juice all worth RM11,971.80,” he said today.

    Habibi said the drugs could supply up to 1,051 drug addicts around the state capital.

    Police investigation revealed the suspect to be jobless but believed he made his living as a drug supplier.

    Police investigation also revealed the suspect could earn between RM5,000 to RM6,000 a month depending on the market.

    “The suspect has no prior record but his urine tested positive for ketamin. Police also confiscated two vehicles, two handphones and RM3,000,” said Habibi, adding that the suspect has been remanded for investigation under Section 39B, Section 39A(1), Section 15(1)(a) and Section 7 of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952.

    https://www.theborneopost.com/2021/0...t-damai-condo/

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    Lindsay Sandiford: Gran on death row in Bali continues to receive UK consular support

    Lindsay Sandiford was given a death sentence in 2013 after being caught with 10lb of cocaine

    A Redcar gran on death row for drug smuggling continues to receive consular support.

    Lindsay Sandiford is now 64, having spent over eight years on death row in Bali.

    She was given the death sentence in January 2013 after being caught with 10lb of cocaine on a flight from Bangkok to Bali.

    At the time, she said she was carrying the drugs to protect her son, who she said was being threatened.

    The punishment for drug smuggling in Indonesia is often the death sentence and many are sent to the firing squad.

    A date for the execution has not been set.

    But in 2019, she revealed she had abandoned her legal battle to avoid it.

    Well-wishers had raised more than £40,000 for a final appeal, with the money spent on Indonesian lawyers and legal assistants, it was reported.

    But she reportedly said she didn't want to deal with another lawyer after being "burnt enough times", and she didn't want any more Foreign Office help.

    However a Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office spokesperson told Teesside Live this week that they were in contact with the grandma, who is originally from Redcar.

    “We are in contact with Ms. Sandiford, and are providing consular assistance," he said.

    “The Indonesian Government is well aware that the UK is firmly opposed to the death penalty in all circumstances and in every country as a matter of principle.”

    https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/t...h-row-20214867
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    Indonesian court sentences teacher to death for raping 13 students

    JAKARTA (Reuters) - An Indonesian court handed down a death sentence on Monday to a teacher for raping 13 girls at an Islamic school, upholding an appeal by prosecutors for the death penalty after he had initially received a sentence of life in prison.

    The case of teacher Herry Wirawan has shocked Indonesia and shone a spotlight on the need to protect children from sexual violence in the country's religious boarding schools.

    After he was sentenced to life in jail by a court in the city of Bandung in February, prosecutors who had called for the death penalty filed an appeal.

    "(We) hereby punish the defendant with the death penalty," the judge said in a statement on Monday posted on the Bandung High Court's website.

    Ira Mambo, Herry's lawyer, declined to comment on whether there would be an appeal, citing a need to see the full ruling from the court.

    A spokesperson for the local prosecutor's office also said it would wait to receive the final ruling before commenting.

    Between 2016 and 2021, Herry sexually groomed the 13 girls, who were between 12 and 16 years old, and impregnated eight of his victims, a judge said in February. read more

    Indonesian officials, including the country's child protection minister, had also backed calls for the death penalty, though the nation's human rights commission, which opposes the death penalty, said it was not appropriate.

    Indonesia, the world's biggest Muslim majority country, has tens of thousands of Islamic boarding schools and other religious schools that often provide the only way for the children of poorer families to get an education.

    https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...ts-2022-04-04/

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    Jakarta High Court Upholds Death Sentence for Ferdy Sambo

    The Jakarta Globe

    Death row inmate Ferdy Sambo had his appeal rejected by the Jakarta High Court on Wednesday, two months after he was convicted by a district court of murdering former subordinate Brigadier Nofriansyah Yosua Huatabarat and condemned to death.

    “We uphold the verdict by the South Jakarta District Court to which [the defendant] is appealing,” Presiding Judge Singgih Budi Prakoso said after four other judges read out the verdict in turn.

    The hearing was aired live by national television networks.

    Ferdy was an inspector general with a key position when he plotted and ordered the July 8, 2022 murder of Yosua allegedly due to the accusation that the subordinate had sexually attacked his wife, according to court documents.

    The unarmed victim was shot multiple times at close range inside Ferdy’s official residence in South Jakarta. In addition to premeditated murder, Ferdy was also found guilty of obstruction of justice.

    In a series of hearings, active and former officers testified how they were asked to tamper with evidence and the crime scene to support Ferdy’s false claim that Yosua had died in a shootout with a fellow officer.

    The district court also ruled that the sexual violence accusations against the deceased didn’t stand up.

    Ferdy’s wife, Putri Candrawathi, was convicted guilty of becoming complicit in the murder and sentenced to 20 years in prison.

    Family assistant Kuat Ma’ruf and Brigadier Ricky Rizal were sentenced to 15 years and 13 years in prison, respectively, for assisting Fredy in the murder and failing to report to the police.

    A low-ranking officer, Second Patrolman Richard Eliezer, was found guilty of firing his gun at the victim on Ferdy’s order.

    But the district court sentenced Richard to just 18 months in prison on the grounds that he agreed to cooperate with investigators and prosecutors in uncovering the murder case despite Ferdy’s obvious attempts to mislead the investigation team.

    All defendants but Richard have filed an appeal to the Jakarta High Court.

    https://jakartaglobe.id/news/jakarta...or-ferdy-sambo
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    Indonesians riled after top cop escapes death penalty for murder of bodyguard, but activists say he has ‘right to life"

    By Aisyah Llewellyn
    The South China Morning Post

    Indonesia’s top court on Tuesday commuted the death sentence of a police official who killed his aide, a decision that has triggered disbelief and raised questions in the country about the transparency of the legal process.

    Ferdy Sambo, a former two-star general and head of Indonesia’s internal affairs department, was found guilty of premeditated murder after his bodyguard, 27-year-old Brigadier Nofriansyah Yosua Hutabarat, was shot dead at Sambo’s Jakarta home in July last year.

    The case gripped the nation, and its ensuing trial was widely seen as a test of police accountability.

    Sambo received the maximum sentence in February, a ruling widely viewed as a sign of justice for Hutabarat and his family. But the Supreme Court’s decision on Tuesday to commute Sambo’s sentence to life in prison on appeal led many people to express their disappointment on social media.

    Berlian Simarmata, a lecturer in criminal law at Santo Thomas Catholic University in Medan, said while the decision was not what people wanted to hear, it was “still within the corridor of the law” and under the authority of the Supreme Court.

    “Legally, there is nothing wrong with the Supreme Court’s decision, but materially people will have different opinions about the verdict,” he said.

    He added that according to Indonesia’s new Criminal Code that will be phased in by 2026, Sambo would be able to apply to have his life term commuted to 20 years after he serves a minimum of 15 years behind bars, meaning he is likely to be eligible for release in the future.

    The Supreme Court also reduced the sentences of Sambo’s co-accused, with his wife Putri Candrawathi’s 20-year jail time halved. Her assistant Kuat Ma’ruf’s sentence was cut from 15 years to 10 years, and police officer Ricky Rizal Wibowo’s 13-year sentence was shortened to eight years. Another police officer Richard Eliezer Pudihang Lumiu received an 18-month sentence at the original trial and was paroled on August 4.

    Sambo’s case takes place amid a trying period for Indonesia’s police force, which already has a reputation for corruption, cronyism and extrajudicial violence.

    Just before Sambo’s trial started last October, police fired tear gas at football fans at Kanjuruhan stadium in the city of Malang, resulting in a deadly crush that left 135 people dead, including young children.

    In March this year, two police officers involved in the tear gas incident were found not guilty on charges of negligence leading to injury and death, while a third was sentenced to just 18 months in prison.

    Jacqui Baker, a fellow of the Indo-Pacific Research Centre at Murdoch University in Australia, said that while Sambo’s trial had been held up as a litmus test of police accountability, it had obscured the case at Kanjuruhan stadium in Malang, where hundreds died in a crush that had involved many police officers, highlighting the systemic violence carried out by the Indonesian force.

    “The police orchestrated Sambo’s trial like a soap opera and a case of good cop versus bad cop to distract from wider structural issues within Indonesia’s police force,” Baker said.

    As a result, the commutation of the death sentence could be viewed as a further sign of continued police impunity in Indonesia and a lack of accountability when Indonesian police officers use violence to deadly effect, she added.

    “It also just rubs salt in the wounds of the victims of Kanjuruhan,” she said.

    It is still unclear what led to the shooting of Hutabarat at Sambo’s home, although prosecutors at the trial suggested that Hutabarat had been having an affair with Sambo’s wife. Sambo and Candrawathi claimed that Hutabarat had tried to sexually assault Candrawathi and had been the first to fire shots at Sambo when he confronted him.

    Usman Hamid, director of Amnesty Indonesia, said that public sentiment had been divided regarding Sambo’s death sentence, but that “dominant public opinion had wanted to see him executed”.

    https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/peopl...has-right-live
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty for Three Accused of Killing Nine Victims


    By The Jakarta Globe

    Bekasi. Indonesian prosecutors on Monday recommended the death sentence for three men suspected of being serial killers who allegedly used poisoned drinks to murder their victims.

    The defendants, namely Wowon Erawan, Solihin (known as Duloh), and Dede Solehudin, were arrested following the deaths of three individuals from poisoning at a boarding house in Bekasi, just east of Jakarta, on January 12.

    The victims included a 40-year-old woman and her two sons, aged 23 and 17, who died after consuming poisoned coffee.

    A subsequent investigation led authorities to discover secret graves in various locations in Cianjur, where additional bodies were found.

    During the court hearing, a prosecutor demanded the maximum punishment under the premeditated murder article of the Criminal Code.

    “We demand that the panel of the Bekasi District Court pronounce the defendants guilty and sentence them to death,” a prosecutor said as he read aloud the demand.

    Wowon, aged 60 at the time of his arrest, has admitted to ordering the murders.

    According to the indictment, at least seven of the victims were related to Wowon. He stands accused of murdering his three wives, son, two stepsons, and mother-in-law, along with at least two other victims. Dede, aged 35, and Solihin, aged 65, are alleged to have assisted Wowon in these crimes, motivated by money scams.

    The trio claimed to possess "supernatural abilities" to multiply money and resorted to killing victims who had surrendered cash and later grew suspicious of their activities, as stated by the police.

    Most of the victims were poisoned using coffee, said Chief Commissioner Hengki Haryadi, the director of the Jakarta Police's criminal investigation agency.

    The motive behind Wowon's decision to kill his wives, children, and mother-in-law remains unclear. The police believe that some of them began questioning his actions.

    The victims include Wowon's two-year-old son, whose body was buried at his home in Cianjur.

    So far, the police have recovered eight bodies, including four buried in Cianjur.

    The first known victims of the trio were two Indonesian migrant workers, identified only as Siti and Farida, who fell into Wowon's trap. They were killed after demanding returns on their "investment," and Siti's body was disposed of in the sea.

    Farida was buried near Wowon's residence in Cianjur, although the police did not provide details regarding how, when, or where the two women were murdered.

    The third and fourth victims were Wowon's mother-in-law, identified only as Noneng, who allegedly witnessed the earlier murders, and his wife Wiwin. They were killed at Solihin's house in Cianjur.

    Solihin also killed Wowon's other wife, named Halimah. Her body was returned to her family in Cilicin, and unsuspecting relatives accepted the explanation that she had died of natural causes.

    Subsequently, Wowon married Halimah's daughter, Ai Maimunah, aged 40, a widow with two sons named Ridwan Abdul Muiz, 23, and Muhammad Riswandi, 17. They were found critically ill in Bekasi and succumbed to poisoning at a hospital on January 12, prompting a murder investigation against the three men.

    Wowon is believed to have killed his two-year-old son, Bayu, from his marriage with Ai, burying the body in his Cianjur home approximately three months before the Bekasi murders.

    The suspects buried some of their victims in concealed graves, using tiles or even a chicken coop to camouflage them. Several of the victims likely met their fate two years ago.

    https://jakartaglobe.id/news/prosecu...g-nine-victims
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