Indonesia rejects UN moratorium against death penalty

"We reject the UN resolution because death penalty remains part of our positive law and therefore we cannot support it," Indonesia`s permanent representative for UN, Marty Natalegawa, said here on Thursday.
Marty said Indonesia was one of more than one hundred countries in the world which remained practicing death penalty with at least nine criminals have been sentenced to death since 2004.
The UN resolution would now go before the full 192-member Assembly for a vote next month. All Assembly resolutions were non-binding.
The resolution welcomes "the decisions taken by an increasing number of States to apply a moratorium on executions, followed in many cases by the abolition of the death penalty," and expresses deep concern that the death penalty continues to be applied in some countries.