Oz Threatens to Recall Ambassador, Jokowi: I am Not Afraid
29 April 2015 13:32 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – President Joko Widodo has said he is not afraid of recent foreign threats of ambassadorial recall pertaining to the country’s applying death penalty.
Instead, the president called on the countries making the threats to respect the sovereignty of the Indonesian law.
“This is our law sovereignty, on capital punishment. We also respect the law sovereignty of other countries,” he said when opening the 2015 National Development Planning Consultation (Musrembangnas) at Bidakara Hotel on Wednesday, April 29, 2015.
Earlier, a group of nations from which the drug inmates executed early on Wednesday hailed threatened to recall their ambassadors from Indonesia—among them Australia, the homeland of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, who were among the executed.
On the occasion, Vice President Jusuf Kalla was seen whispering to the president regarding the Australian threat. “Our ambassador in Yaman was once recalled, too, but this won’t be a problem, perhaps [the problem will only last for] several months,” he told Jokowi.
REZA ADITYA
