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President Joko Widodo has instructed enforcement officers to shoot drug traffickers who resist arrest in Indonesia.
Be firm, especially to foreign drug dealers who enter the country and resist arrest. Shoot them because we indeed are in a narcotics emergency position now he said at the United Development Party (PPP) national working meeting on Friday. If they resist arrest, just gun them down, show no mercy.
This order, amid calls for tougher action in Indonesias war on drugs, has drawn comparisons between Jokowi and his Philippine counterpart, Rodrigo Duterte.Dutertes controversial and widely condemned crackdown on narcotics has left thousands dead since his election.
Last week Indonesian police shot dead a Taiwanese man involved in a drug smuggling operation near the capital. It was the largest ever seizure of crystal methamphetamine in Indonesias history. National Police Chief Tito Karnavian told local news agencies from the practice in the field, we see that when we shoot at drug dealers they go away. So if such a policy were implemented in Indonesia, we believe that the number of drug traffickers and users in our beloved country would drop drastically.
Indonesia has some of the worlds toughest drug laws and is one of 33 countries that still use capital punishment for drug related offences.
(brl/red)
