Indonesia reaches a critical milestone

Today, 29 July 2026, marks ten years since Indonesia last carried out an execution. Under United Nations standards, this sustained pause now makes Indonesia a de facto abolitionist state – a significant moment for the country and for the global movement against the death penalty.

More than 500 people remain on death row in Indonesia, most sentenced for drug-related offences. But 2023 reforms to the Criminal Code introduced a ten-year probationary ‘grace period’ for death sentences, allowing courts to consider a person's remorse and potential for rehabilitation, with the option to commute a death sentence to life imprisonment.

CPJP has joined the Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network, Indonesian rights groups and a number of other partner organisations in a joint statement marking the occasion and calling on Indonesia to proceed to formal abolition of the death penalty.

This edition of our newsletter also rounds up recent global developments:

• 19 executions have been carried out in the USA so far this year, including two men executed yesterday in Florida;

• at least 26 people have now been executed in Iran in connection with January's protests, including two men executed in a public hanging yesterday;

• Singapore recently carried out its 15th execution this year – already close to the 17 executions recorded in all of 2025, with five months still remaining in 2026; and

• encouraging commitments from Lebanon, Sierra Leone, Cambodia, Chad and the Central African Republic at the World Congress Against the Death Penalty in Paris at the start of this month.

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