Jakarta, April 9 -- The government is currently preparing a Bill on the Implementation of the Death Penalty as a derivative regulation of the Indonesian Criminal Code (KUHP), which will take effect on January 2, 2026.

Coordinating Minister for Law, Human Rights, Immigration, and Corrections, Yusril Ihza Mahendra, stated that the Bill was drafted in accordance with current conditions in Indonesia during the transition from the old Criminal Code, which had been in place since the Dutch colonization, to the National Criminal Code.

"The National Criminal Code will not allow immediate death penalty," he stated on Tuesday (April 8).

Mahendra explained that the new Criminal Code requires death row convicts to serve a 10-year imprisonment term...