Sky News is reporting "Indonesia has defended Singapore's right to execute convicted drug smuggler, Van Nguyen.
The Indonesian Foreign Minister has warned Australians to tone down their emotional response to the death penalty, given the Bali Nine could soon be facing the same fate.
Hassan Wirajuda says Australians need to develop a greater understanding of Asia's legal system.
He says Australians need to understand that drug offences are serious and rightfully carry the death penalty in some of Australia's closest neighbours.
The nine alleged members of the heroin-smuggling gang were arrested in Bali in April, most with heroin strapped to their bodies."
So now we are being 'warned' by a regime that is yet to bring to justice those mainly responsible for the East Timor atrocities, and that does little to clean up corruption in its own judicial backyard.
Our own Government, through the actions of the AFP, is complicit in exposing the Bali nine to state sanctioned murder in a country that has a history of police, military and judicial corruption that beggars belief.
Well Mr Foreign Minister, I don't think we should be toning anything down, but those of us who consider the death penalty to be a barbaric misuse of state power are going to shine a spotlight on the operation of the judicial process in Indonesia in the case of the Bali nine so that all the world can see...
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